Lloyd Humbarger, 83, a longtime Battle Creek attorney and former president of the Battle Creek Board of Education, died Sunday, Oct. 3, 1993, in St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Minn, where he had been a patient two weeks.
He was born Nov. 13, 1909 in Ficklin, Ill., to Marshall C. and Bessie B (Molt) Humbarger. He graduated from Clayton (Mich.) High School and received a bachelor's degree from Adrian College in 1931.
Mr. Humbarger earned a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1934 and was a law clerk that year for Michigan Supreme Court Justice George E. Bushnell in Detroit.
He came to Battle Creek in 1935 to work with attorney Burritt Hamilton and practiced law in the Comerica Building. His first job was to liquidate assets of the old Merchants Bank and Trust.
Mr. Humbarger was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, serving aboard the USS Copahee in the Pacific Theater as a first lieutenant.
He was a member of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he was a trustee many years; Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity; and the Michigan Bar Association. He was a past president of the Calhoun County Bar Association.
Mr. Humbarger served the Michigan T.B. and Respiratory Disease Association as president 1962-1964, was national representative for the American Lung Association for several years and served on the board of the Leila Hospital for several years.
He was a member of the Battle Creek Board of Education from 1957-68, serving two years as president, two years as vice president and two years as secretary. He also served on the Adrian College Alumni Advisory Board.
His wife of 42 years, the former Ida D. Dettloff died in 1981. They had married on August 21, 1939 in Rogers City, Michigan. His second marriage was to the former Helen M. Harrison Black on July 21 1990 in Adrian, Michigan. She survives.
Also surviving are a son, Robert L. Humbarger of Battle Creek; a daughter, Judith L. Norman of Valparaiso, Ind.; a stepson, Richard Black of San Francisco, Calif.; stepdaughters, Caroline Utley of Silver Springs, Md., Constance Nagle of Ann Arbor and Charlotte Black of Terre Haute, Ind.; 4 grandchildren and 8 step-grandchildren.
Visitation: 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Bachman Hebble Funeral Service.
Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday in St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church with the Rev. Thomas L. Heil and Vicar Frank E. Kinast, Jr. officiating.
Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery
Memorials: St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church
He was born Nov. 13, 1909 in Ficklin, Ill., to Marshall C. and Bessie B (Molt) Humbarger. He graduated from Clayton (Mich.) High School and received a bachelor's degree from Adrian College in 1931.
Mr. Humbarger earned a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1934 and was a law clerk that year for Michigan Supreme Court Justice George E. Bushnell in Detroit.
He came to Battle Creek in 1935 to work with attorney Burritt Hamilton and practiced law in the Comerica Building. His first job was to liquidate assets of the old Merchants Bank and Trust.
Mr. Humbarger was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, serving aboard the USS Copahee in the Pacific Theater as a first lieutenant.
He was a member of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he was a trustee many years; Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity; and the Michigan Bar Association. He was a past president of the Calhoun County Bar Association.
Mr. Humbarger served the Michigan T.B. and Respiratory Disease Association as president 1962-1964, was national representative for the American Lung Association for several years and served on the board of the Leila Hospital for several years.
He was a member of the Battle Creek Board of Education from 1957-68, serving two years as president, two years as vice president and two years as secretary. He also served on the Adrian College Alumni Advisory Board.
His wife of 42 years, the former Ida D. Dettloff died in 1981. They had married on August 21, 1939 in Rogers City, Michigan. His second marriage was to the former Helen M. Harrison Black on July 21 1990 in Adrian, Michigan. She survives.
Also surviving are a son, Robert L. Humbarger of Battle Creek; a daughter, Judith L. Norman of Valparaiso, Ind.; a stepson, Richard Black of San Francisco, Calif.; stepdaughters, Caroline Utley of Silver Springs, Md., Constance Nagle of Ann Arbor and Charlotte Black of Terre Haute, Ind.; 4 grandchildren and 8 step-grandchildren.
Visitation: 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Bachman Hebble Funeral Service.
Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday in St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church with the Rev. Thomas L. Heil and Vicar Frank E. Kinast, Jr. officiating.
Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery
Memorials: St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lloyd Humbarger, 83, a longtime Battle Creek attorney and former president of the Battle Creek Board of Education, died Sunday, Oct. 3, 1993, in St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Minn, where he had been a patient two weeks.
He was born Nov. 13, 1909 in Ficklin, Ill., to Marshall C. and Bessie B (Molt) Humbarger. He graduated from Clayton (Mich.) High School and received a bachelor's degree from Adrian College in 1931.
Mr. Humbarger earned a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1934 and was a law clerk that year for Michigan Supreme Court Justice George E. Bushnell in Detroit.
He came to Battle Creek in 1935 to work with attorney Burritt Hamilton and practiced law in the Comerica Building. His first job was to liquidate assets of the old Merchants Bank and Trust.
Mr. Humbarger was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, serving aboard the USS Copahee in the Pacific Theater as a first lieutenant.
He was a member of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he was a trustee many years; Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity; and the Michigan Bar Association. He was a past president of the Calhoun County Bar Association.
Mr. Humbarger served the Michigan T.B. and Respiratory Disease Association as president 1962-1964, was national representative for the American Lung Association for several years and served on the board of the Leila Hospital for several years.
He was a member of the Battle Creek Board of Education from 1957-68, serving two years as president, two years as vice president and two years as secretary. He also served on the Adrian College Alumni Advisory Board.
His wife of 42 years, the former Ida D. Dettloff died in 1981. They had married on August 21, 1939 in Rogers City, Michigan. His second marriage was to the former Helen M. Harrison Black on July 21 1990 in Adrian, Michigan. She survives.
Also surviving are a son, Robert L. Humbarger of Battle Creek; a daughter, Judith L. Norman of Valparaiso, Ind.; a stepson, Richard Black of San Francisco, Calif.; stepdaughters, Caroline Utley of Silver Springs, Md., Constance Nagle of Ann Arbor and Charlotte Black of Terre Haute, Ind.; 4 grandchildren and 8 step-grandchildren.
Visitation: 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Bachman Hebble Funeral Service.
Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday in St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church with the Rev. Thomas L. Heil and Vicar Frank E. Kinast, Jr. officiating.
Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery
Memorials: St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church
He was born Nov. 13, 1909 in Ficklin, Ill., to Marshall C. and Bessie B (Molt) Humbarger. He graduated from Clayton (Mich.) High School and received a bachelor's degree from Adrian College in 1931.
Mr. Humbarger earned a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1934 and was a law clerk that year for Michigan Supreme Court Justice George E. Bushnell in Detroit.
He came to Battle Creek in 1935 to work with attorney Burritt Hamilton and practiced law in the Comerica Building. His first job was to liquidate assets of the old Merchants Bank and Trust.
Mr. Humbarger was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, serving aboard the USS Copahee in the Pacific Theater as a first lieutenant.
He was a member of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he was a trustee many years; Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity; and the Michigan Bar Association. He was a past president of the Calhoun County Bar Association.
Mr. Humbarger served the Michigan T.B. and Respiratory Disease Association as president 1962-1964, was national representative for the American Lung Association for several years and served on the board of the Leila Hospital for several years.
He was a member of the Battle Creek Board of Education from 1957-68, serving two years as president, two years as vice president and two years as secretary. He also served on the Adrian College Alumni Advisory Board.
His wife of 42 years, the former Ida D. Dettloff died in 1981. They had married on August 21, 1939 in Rogers City, Michigan. His second marriage was to the former Helen M. Harrison Black on July 21 1990 in Adrian, Michigan. She survives.
Also surviving are a son, Robert L. Humbarger of Battle Creek; a daughter, Judith L. Norman of Valparaiso, Ind.; a stepson, Richard Black of San Francisco, Calif.; stepdaughters, Caroline Utley of Silver Springs, Md., Constance Nagle of Ann Arbor and Charlotte Black of Terre Haute, Ind.; 4 grandchildren and 8 step-grandchildren.
Visitation: 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Bachman Hebble Funeral Service.
Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday in St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church with the Rev. Thomas L. Heil and Vicar Frank E. Kinast, Jr. officiating.
Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery
Memorials: St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church
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