Notes for James Foss Chew

Notes for James Foss Chew

!Obituary: James Foss Chew 10/7/89, 80, of 119 Rosewood Circle, Bridgewater, New Jersey died Saturday at Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Rockinham, VA. Mr. Chew moved to Bridgewater eight years ago from Sandston. He was born Oct. 23, 1908, in Germantown, Pa., and was the son of the late Louis DeRousse and Florence Foss Chew. He was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church and a graduate of Bordentown (N.J.) Military Institute. Mr. Chew served three years in the Army. He was a member of Sandston Masonic Lodge No. 216 AF & AM and the Richmond Scottish Rites Bodies. He also was a charter member of Sandston American Legion Post 242 and served as post commander in 165. He was a member of the Sandston H.S. Volunteer Fire Department, the American Association of Retired Persons, National Historical Society and Harrisonburg Moose Lodge 1686. On July 3, 1931, he married Emma Claudia Chew, who died Aug. 26, 1987. Chew's only survivor is a sister-in-law. The body is at the McMullen Bridgewater Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends 7 - 8 pm today. A memorial service will be conducted at 7 pm by the Harrisonburg Moose Lodge. The body will be taken to Nelson Funeral Home in Richmond Tuesday, where there will be a viewing Tuesday night. Graveside services held at 11 am Wednesday in Washington Memorial Park Cemetery at Sandston.

He attended BMI -
!Bordentown Military Institute (BMI): "From 1885 to 1972 the famous Bordentown Military Institute was located within the historic district. The official beginning of the Bordentown Military Institute dates from the arrival of Thomas H. Landon, a Methodist minister, as head of the school in 1885. Many BMI graduates went on to become honor students at West Point or Annapolis. Officers trained at least in part at BMI served in every American war beginning with the Spanish American war. At its height, more than 300 students attended. In 1972, financial problems, and an anti-military attitude which led to declining enrollments, forced BMI to move to Massachusetts where it merge with Lenox Academy."