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Monday October 4,
1937 Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio
MOTHER OF JOURNAL CIRCULATION HEAD SUCCUMBS AT XENIA
Mrs. Anna V. Chew, 82, Was Member of Prominent Lebanon Family
Death Sunday claimed Mrs. Anna V. Chew, of
Xenia, native of Lebanon and descendant of one of Warren County’s leading
families.
Mrs. Chew died at 10:15 A.M. at her home on East Market
Street, Xenia, following a brief illness. The previous Sunday she had
seemed in customary good health and spirits and had spent a pleasant day
with her family, falling ill last Tuesday. She was 82 years old.
Mrs. Chew was a member of a widely-known and respected
Lebanon family and married into a family of equal prominence when the
romance of Anna McBurney and the late W. B. Chew at Lebanon Normal School
resulted in their union. Anna McBurney, daughter of A. G. McBurney, one
time war governor of Ohio, met W. B. Chew who was taking a
post-graduate course at the Lebanon university.
He and his father, J. P. Chew, both printers by trade,
purchased the newspaper which became the Xenia Gazette under their
management 54 years ago. When they assumed management it was a tri-weekly
publication. Later they published semi-weekly and more than 50 years ago
pioneered in making it a daily newspaper. The third generation of the
family now published the Gazette.
To their union were born four sons, L. F. chew, of
Washington, D.C., J. A. Chew, publisher of the Xenia Gazette; F. W. Chew,
circulation manager of the Middletown Journal, and Harry, who died in
infancy.
Besides the three sons, Mrs. Chew leaves a sister, Mrs. Coryell, who lives
at the McBurney homestead in Lebanon, seven grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Tuesday at 2 P.M. at the residence. Burial will
be in the family plot in the Lebanon Cemetery. |
by
Vivian Moon
18 June 2008 |
