Chase School 1904-5

The students attending Chase School in the school year of 1904-05 pose outside the building. Mrs. Della Chase Smith, who sent in the picture identifies all she can remember. Front row: Marguerite Olin, unknown, unknown, Eugene Weed, Milton Weed, David Howland, John Hirner, Roscoe Wightman, Bug Olin, Charles Olin and Wyman Silcox. Row 2: Mammie Jones, Mammie Icox, unknown, Effie Chase, unknown, Ver Van Valkenberg, Irene Wightman, Alice Raplee, and Osa Voss. Row 3: Claude Kibby, Irene Taylor, Lelia Chase, Margaret Hirner, Emma Haberer, Walter Wightman, unknown, Edgerton Taylor and John Haberer. Back row: Della Chase, Naomi Godiwin, Florence Irish, teacher Lloyd Goodrich later Allegan County School Commissioner and Superintendent of Public Instruction in Lansing), Tracy Weed and Erwin Haberer. On July 23, 1883, the late Mr. and Mrs. James Chase sold one half acre of their property on the Old Chase Road (now Blue Star Memorial Highway) and 126th Ave. for a new school building which was named Chase School, District No. 5, Saugatuck Township. It served as a school for many years until the district annexed to the Fennville Public School system. In July, 1956 J. Serene Chase and wife Margaret purchased the school property and sold the Chase school building to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sheldon who moved it to Pier Cove and converted it into a home.