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William "Eddie" E. LaPlant
Jody Hane2020-10-11T10:31:17-05:00
- Name: William "Eddie" E. LaPlant
- Location of Birth: Swatara, Minnesota
- Date of Birth: June 14, 1911
- Date of Death: March 7, 2001 (89 years old)
- Parents: William LaPlant and Bessie (Baty) LaPlant
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Eddie served in the United States Army Military Police during World War II.
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Eddie married Ada Snyder in 1940.
He worked as a logger with his father and also for Blandin Paper Company from 1955 until his retirement in 1976.
He was a member of the Grand Rapids Alliance Church, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
He is survived by his wife, Ada; three daughters, Kay Bouchie, Kathleen Krogh, and Joan Lease; a son, Glenn, three sisters, Lillian Surface, Doris Erickson and Alice Bishop; five brothers, Charlie, Lawrence, Lloyd, Robert, Roland and Roy; twelve grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Preceding him in death were his parents; a daughter, Diane Whirley; a brother, Henry, and a granddaughter, Sheryl Schepper.
Eddie died at Itasca Medical Center in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and is buried in Harris Cemetery at Grand Rapids, Minnesota. (Plot 1.4.2.?)
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