Mary Emma Rood
June 13, 1884-Jan. 18, 1961
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Thursday, January 19, 1961, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Mary Emma Rood, 76, 1025 N. 9th St., died at 4:05 p.m. Wednesday in Pawating Hospital where she had been a patient since Dec. 21. She had been in failing health for four years.
Mrs. Rood was born June 13, 1884, in Snyder County, Pa., and had lived in the community most of her lifetime coming here when she was four years of age. She was a member of the Royal Neighbors of America, the Modern Woodmen and the Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers. Her husband, Alfred Rood, preceded her death in 1957.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. John Prestine, Niles, and Mrs. Norman Williamson, Dowagiac; four sons, Henry, George, Robert and Roy Rood, all Niles; 11 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Boughton, Three Rivers.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Pifer Funeral Home with Dr. Maurice McKean, pastor of First Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
Friends are being received at the funeral home.