Helen L. FARWELL

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• Census: 1930, Living with mother and step-father in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan

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Helen L. Lemon, 94, of Berrien Springs, passed away, Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at Lakeland Medical Center in St. Joseph.

A Celebration of Life Religious Service will be held 4:00 P.M. Sunday, November 6, 2016, followed by a Memorial Gathering Visitation until 8:00 P.M. at Lemon Creek Winery, 533 E. Lemon Creek Rd., Berrien Springs. Private burial will take place at Salem Cemetery in Berrien Springs. Memorial donations in Helen?s name may be made to Hinchman United Methodist Church. Those wishing to sign Helen?s Memory Book online may do so at www.starks-menchinger.com.

Helen was born July 25, 1922 in Benton Harbor to Rex & Lila (Temple) Farwell. She graduated from Benton Harbor High School, Class of 1940. On November 1, 1947 she married Robert Lemon in Benton Harbor. Helen was employed as a bookkeeper in the accounting department of Clark Equipment in Benton Harbor, retiring after 28 years. Helen devoted her life to her family and the family business. She and Robert operated Lemon Creek Fruit Farm in Berrien Springs, which dates back to 1855, and she was a founding member of Lemon Creek Winery, which her family still operates. Helen learned to cook at an early age at her family?s business, Benefield Grocery & Restaurant in Benton Heights. She continued to refine her cooking skills and published her recipes in a cookbook. Helen enjoyed entertaining family and friends at their summer home on Scott Lake in Bloomingdale and their winter home in Kissimmee, Florida. You never went away hungry. Helen also enjoyed playing cards. She was an accomplished bridge player who always took advantage of an opportunity to play. Helen was a past-president of the Phi Gamma Epsilon Sorority, a member of Hinchman United Methodist Church in Hinchman and Simpson United Methodist Church in Bangor. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother & great-grandmother with a no-nonsense and to the point view on life. In her free time, she enjoyed reading & dancing.

Helen is survived by her sons-Robert (Lois) Lemon of Kalamazoo, Jeffrey (Cathy) Lemon of Berrien Springs, Timothy (Katie) Lemon of Berrien Springs; six grandchildren-Tyson (Andi) Lemon, Mollie (Jeff) Trembath, Kaitlyn Lemon, Douglas (Imelda) Lemon, Makai Rosa & Megan (David) DeKoster; and nine great-grandchildren; and all the Lemon Family who called her either Mom, Grandma or Aunt Helen. She was preceded in death by her husband Robert on July 13, 2005 and her son Douglas Lemon on Nov. 12, 1989.

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Helen married Cyril VARNEY on 2 Aug 1940 in Berrien Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Helen married Robert L. LEMON on 1 Nov 1947 in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan. Robert was born on 19 Feb 1927 in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan; died on 13 Jul 2005; was buried in Salem Cemetery, Oronoko Twp., Berrien Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan
• Census: 1920, Living in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co, Michigan

Rex married Lila C. TEMPLE on 5 Jan 1918 in St. Joseph, Berrien Co., Michigan, and was divorced on 20 Jan 1927. Lila was born on 24 Oct 1901 in Michigan; died on 22 Feb 1990 in Niles, Berrien Co., Michigan; was buried in Crystal Springs Cemetery, Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Frank Temple
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan
• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan

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• Census: 1880, Living with parents in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan
• Census: 1900, Living in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co, Michigan
• Census: 1910, Living in Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan
• Census: 1920, Living in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
• Census: 1930, Living with son, Claude, in Benton harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan

George married Daisy Agnes FITCH on 6 May 1894 in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan. Daisy was born on 8 Jul 1877 in Muskegon, Michigan; died on 17 Jan 1955; was buried on 19 Jan 1955 in Crystal Springs Cemetery, Benton, Berrien Co., Michigan . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Lewey Nelson Fitch and Anna McNally
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan
• Census: 1910, Living with husband in Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
• Census: 1930, Living with son, Claude, in Benton harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan

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• Census: 1880, Living in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan

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He was a farmer, first in Yates, NY, then in Hartland NY, but the farm not proving as was expected he sold out and removed to Jeddo, NY. In 1874 he removed to Dowagiac, Mich., and bought a farm just out of the city and sold out in a few years and bought one in Glenwood, about ten miles east of Dowagiac, on the Michigan Central Railroad. Here in the spring of 1892 his wife was taken sick, and to be near a physician they removed temporarily to Dowagiac, but near her last days she said she wished to die at her own home and was taken there. In June of the year in which she dies Minnie Rix, her niece, and daughter of her bother Guy S., left Concord at a few hours' notice for Dowagiac to are for her aunt Martha, and stayed and cared for her until her death, and was alone with her when she died, here husband being called away on business, none thinking her death was so near.

Mr. Farwell enlisted Aug. 22, 1962, in Co. A, 129th NY Inft.; discharged for disability June 19, 18963. While on the farm in Dowagiac he worked occasionally in a stove foundry and shop and received an injury by the bursting of an emery wheel, which it is thought caused insanity after a few years. The death of his wife broke him all up, and disposing of every piece of property he had he went east to visit his brother-in-law Guy S. Rix, in Concord, NH. It was soon discovered he was deranged, he was sent back to Michigan and in a few days he was taken to the Insane Asylum at Kalamazoo, where he died in 1899.

The Compiler became acquainted with Mr. Farwell while in the army, where they bunked together, and were as brothers, as it proved to be a fact afterwards, and there is no man living whom he loved with a deeper, brotherly love than he had for Henry A. Farwell. Mr. Farwell was known and recognized in the community in which he lived as a kind, affectionate husabnd and father, a good neighbor and an upright citizen.

Henry married Martha Rebecca RIX on 11 Apr 1866. Martha (daughter of Guy Carlton RIX and Martha GATES) was born on 16 Jan 1841 in Barnston, Canada; died on 30 Sep 1892 in Glenwood, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living with parents in Manchester, Washtenaw Co., Michigan
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan