This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#267651) Kayon William Chin <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=267651> AUTHOR: Mari Nielsen - DATE: 2/23/2010 at 22:58:31 Surnames: CHIN,WESSELS,HANEY,THOMPSON,HUBER,FOBAR,DENTINGER KAYON WILLIAM CHIN Kayon William Chin, 68, Route 4, Box 91A, died Friday afternoon at Muscatine General Hospital. Services will be Monday at 10:30 a.m. at First Baptist Church with the Rev. William Means officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. A memorial has been established at the Ralph J. Wittich Funeral Home where visitation will be Sunday from 2-8 p.m. Mr. Chin was born Nov. 5, 1918, in Canton, China. He was a resident of Muscatine for 25 years. He married Renata Potter Wessels on June 29, 1967, in Muscatine. He was owner of Country Kitchen and Lamplight Inn in Muscatine. He attended the University of Illinois and Bradley University and was the first Chinese Eagle Scout in Illinois. He served in the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific during Word War II. He was past commander of Post 1115 in Sprinbay, Ill., and a member of Muscatine Rotary Club, Iowa Lodge No. 2, AF&AM, Eastern Star, Elks Lodge No. 304, the Iowa Restaurant Association, and the Hotel-Motel Association of Iowa. Surviving are his wife; four sons, Kayon William Chin, Jr. of Peoria, Ill., Michael Haney, Marc Haney and Lee Scott Haney, all of Muscatine; Mrs. Gerald (Myrtle) Thompson of Decatur, Ill., Mrs. John (Maida) Huber of Peoria, Ill., Mrs. Don (Marta) Fobar of Washington, Ill., and Mrs. Richard (Margaret) Dentinger of Peoria, Ill.; 19 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; two brothers, LeRoy Chin of Champaign, Ill., and Eddie Chin of Columbus, Ohio; and one sister in China. He was preceded in death by two grandchildren. Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of May 15, 1987