Theresa Rose Marie Chato, GW #190 

Theresa was born in Mt. Carmel, Pa 21 December 1917 to Michael and Mary (Guba) Chato, immigrants from Hungary and Austria, respectively.  By 1940 Theresa had joined the Gospel Worker Society and was living in Cleveland, Ohio.  The 1940 census indicates she had two years of high school.as her education.  Theresa is listed in the Cleveland city directory as “Missionary Gospel Wkr Soc.”  Theresa did not stay in the Gospel Worker Society.  She went to the Belgian Congo as a missionary (after the war?) where she met Paul Chapponaire, born in Switzerland but also a missionary to the Belgian Congo.  They married on 16 May 1947.  Their union was blessed with four children.  The Chapponaires enjoyed a ministry in Africa for several terms.  In their later years, they made their home in Coopersburg, Pa.  Theresa died 27 May 2005.