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How A Battle Creek Dad Became a Music Legend Charles Westover was just a young dad working in a carpet store in Battle Creek in 1961. The job put food on the table for his wife, Shirley, and their three young kids. “Chuck” had finished his service in the Air Force, which had brought the family to Fort Custer in Battle Creek. Shirley even worked as a ticket agent for North Central Airlines at Kellogg Airport for a time. The family lived at Brown’s Trailer Park on Avenue A, just west of town. After work, Chuck moonlighted, playing guitar and singing at the Hi-Lo Club four nights a week with his group, “The Charlie Johnson Band.” One day, a new song came to him, with help from his keyboard player Max Crook and the band, and his life would soon change. ....
Shirley Small lives in sunny Las Vegas these days. As a young mother of three, she held down the fort at their Battle Creek home while her husband went from carpet salesman to music legend. Shirley was married to Charles Westover, who became better known as Del Shannon. She’s 84 now. Six decades ago, the couple lived in Brown’s Trailer Park, 1301 Avenue A in Springfield. In the years after the Second World War, with a housing shortage, trailer parks were springing up everywhere and were thought of as a modern innovation. Shirley remembers going to the little store at the entrance to the park to pick up milk for the kids. . ....