SAN DIEGO -- Funeral services were held Wednesday, August 27, 1997 at St. Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church in Bay Park, San Diego, for former Yakima Vallet resident Ronald Eli Chouinard, a former district manager for the San Diego Union-Tribune, who died Monday at Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, following a heart attack and stroke. He was 67.
Mr. Chouinard was born in Crookston, Minn, and attended elementary school there. He graduated from high school in Naches, Wash., and then joined the Navy.
He was an aviation machinist mate at North Island during the Korean War and settled in San Diego after leaving the service. He worked first for Rohr Industries in Chula Vista and then as a district sales manager for the newspaper, retiring in 1991 after 31 years of service.
Mr. Chouinard is survived by his mother, Lucille Schiller of Yakima, Wash.; a brother, Bernard of Spokane, Wash, a sister, Betty Huck of Yakima, and his wife Patricia of San Diego.
He is also survived by 12 children: sons, Warren, Jerry, James, Robert, Scott and Danny, all of San Diego, and Mark of Yakima; daughters, Julie Brown, Rhonda Varonfakis and Kathleen Russell, all of San Diego, Marsha DeWitt and Linda Long, both of Yakima, and 27 grandchildren.
Burial will be at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.
Military Information: AD1, US NAVY
SAN DIEGO -- Funeral services were held Wednesday, August 27, 1997 at St. Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church in Bay Park, San Diego, for former Yakima Vallet resident Ronald Eli Chouinard, a former district manager for the San Diego Union-Tribune, who died Monday at Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, following a heart attack and stroke. He was 67.
Mr. Chouinard was born in Crookston, Minn, and attended elementary school there. He graduated from high school in Naches, Wash., and then joined the Navy.
He was an aviation machinist mate at North Island during the Korean War and settled in San Diego after leaving the service. He worked first for Rohr Industries in Chula Vista and then as a district sales manager for the newspaper, retiring in 1991 after 31 years of service.
Mr. Chouinard is survived by his mother, Lucille Schiller of Yakima, Wash.; a brother, Bernard of Spokane, Wash, a sister, Betty Huck of Yakima, and his wife Patricia of San Diego.
He is also survived by 12 children: sons, Warren, Jerry, James, Robert, Scott and Danny, all of San Diego, and Mark of Yakima; daughters, Julie Brown, Rhonda Varonfakis and Kathleen Russell, all of San Diego, Marsha DeWitt and Linda Long, both of Yakima, and 27 grandchildren.
Burial will be at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.
Military Information: AD1, US NAVY
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