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Evelyn June Chuchalk

Posted: 03/28/2025

LAKE MILTON - Evelyn June (Snyder) Chuchalk, 102 (and a half) years old, died at her home in Lake Milton early Friday morning, March 28, 2025. She was born in Deerfield, OH on October 28, 1922, to James Snyder, a prominent engineer, and Olive Leona (Williams) Snyder.Evelyn moved regularly as a young girl, as her father’s work required the family to relocate often, but she grew up and spent most of her adolescent years in Alliance, OH. She graduated from Alliance High School.Evelyn was a real-life Rosie the Riveter. During WWII, she joined our nation’s war effort in her early twenties, taking a job at the Ravenna Arsenal. While there, she worked on the Load Line setting pins into ammunition shells. She told stories of the importance of her job and how one missing pin would bring the entire line to a standstill. A single shell without a pin could mean life of death for our boys overseas and that was unacceptable! Evelyn worked at the arsenal until meeting her future husband, Frank W. “B

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