Charles Chaney

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Charles Chaney was born on 4 July 1940 in Temple, Bell County, Texas, to Claude Chaney and Maudie Ruth Canady. his family moved to Arlington, Tarrant County, soon after he was born. His father had taken a job at the North American Aviation plant in Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas. After the war, the family lived three years in Callahan County, Texas, then less than two years on a farm south of Arlington before returning to their home county. They owned a farm south west of Belton, Bell County, Texas, for three years then moved into Belton on East 13th Street where all three sons finished school. Charles began college as a day student art Mary Hardin-Baylor College because of health issues but moved to East Texas State College for the second and subsequent years, graduating with a major in Commercial Art and a minor in communications. About to be drafted, he joined the Air Force. Later, he was the staff artist at tv station WCEN-TV. Then was a staff artist with civil service at Fort Hood, Texas. Eventually retuning to East Texas State University receiving a masters degree in Library Science in 1972. He soon found employment with the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library working in the branches, retiring in the fall of 1998. He remains in Ohio, now, in Westlake, a western suburb of Cleveland.

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