Sylvia Johnson
March 28, 1884-Dec. 21, 1954
Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, December 22, 1954, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Sylvia H. Johnson, 70, of 581 Union street, died at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday at Pawating Hospital after a three-week illness. Born March 28, 1884 at Almena, Mich., she came here from Benton Harbor in 1929.
She was a member of the Niles Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Dorcas Society of the church.
Survivors are a son, Charles Allen, Kalamazoo; three daughters, Mrs. Ella Peters, Pomona, Calif.; Mrs. Howard Miller and Mrs. Huston Miller, both of Niles; 11 grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Evie Riley, Marcellus, and Mrs. Alma Peierson, St. Cloud, Fla.
Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home where Elder Lawrence Caviness of the Seventh-day adventist[sic] Church will conduct services at 2 p.m. Friday. Burial will be at Silverbrook Cemetery.