HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1962.05.07 - 19838Miscellaneous Resolution - t` May 7, 1962
BY: Mr. Goodspeed
IN RE: MEMORIAL TO GEORGE A. SCHWEIGERT
To the Oakland County Board of Supervisors
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
George A. Schweigert was born in Detroit March 15, 1877. At the age of 14
he went to work for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. He continued in their
employment until 1929 when he retired after 38 years of service with the company.
He married Amanda Meyers in 1901 who passed away in 1950, one year short
of their 50th wedding anniversary. Two daughters were born to the couple, Mrs. Gerald
Harrison of Farmington and Mrs. Harold Tukey of East Lansing. George leaves the two
daughters, seven grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren.
George moved to Ferndale in 1924 and resided at 304 W. Maplehurst until he took
up residence in the Presbyterian Village on Six Mile Road in Detroit a few years ago.
After his retirement from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company he became affiliated
with B. Eby and later with P. J. Watson and Tel Mielke in the real estate and insurance
business.
George was a member of Lodge #2 F & A.M. of Detroit, was an Elder in the Covenant
Presbyterian Church in Detroit prior to his taking up residence in Ferndale. In Ferndale he
helped organize the Drayton Avenue Presbyterian Church and became First Clerk of the Session.
He was an Elder in the Drayton Avenue Church for 37 years and an ordained Elder of the
Presbyterian Church for 50 years.
George served as a member of the Board of Review for the City of Ferndale from 1942
to 1954 inclusive, and was a member of the Oakland County Board of Supervisors from April
1939 to August 1954, serving on the Equalization Committee most of this time. It was
through George's efforts that our better system of equalization was promoted.
Roy' GoodpeØd, Chairman
George was a good husband, a good father, a good neighbor, a good church man
and a good citizen of his City and the County. He passed away on March 28, 1962,
shortly after celebrating his 85th birthday.
MR. CHAIRMAN, I move that the foregoing memorial resolution be spread upon
the minutes of the meeting of this Board and copies thereof forwarded to his daughters,
Mrs. Gerald V. Harrison and Mrs. Harold B. Tukey.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
Helen G. Bonner HZigh Charteris
Thomas H. OlDonoghue