Obituaries

We now have over 7,000 obituaries collected about the interred here at Silverbrook Cemetery.

The obituaries are transcribed by the volunteers of the Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery from various sources.  If you see an opportunity for an addition or a correction, please email our obituary editor at obits@friendsofsilverbrook.org.

Curtis, Charles L.

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Charles L. Curtis
March 11, 1886-Nov. 4, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, November 5, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

Charles L. Curtis [. . who lived at South Fifth Street], sexton at Trinity Episcopal Church here, died at 7:47 [illegible] following an illness of six weeks.

Mr. Curtis, a retired New York Central Railroad employe, was born March 11, 1886, in LaGrange Township, Cass County, and had lived his entire life in and around this community. He was a member of Trinity Church, St. Joseph Valley Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Madonna White Shrine and Order of Eastern Star.

Surviving are: his wife, Edythe, three sons, Evan W. Curtis, of Dowagiac, Charles M. Curtis, of Cassopolis, and Edwin E. Curtis, of Kalamazoo; two daughters, Mrs. Donna Rose, of New Brunswick, N.Y., and Mrs. Shirley LeStrange, of Dowagiac; 11 grandchildren; two step-sons, Nelson and Paul King, both of Battle Creek, and a sister, Mrs. Kelsey Bainton, of Niles.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in Trinity Episcopal Church with the rector, the Rev.John G. Carlton, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery with Masonic rites at the graveside. Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home here.

 

Stark Twins

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Stark Twins
Nov. 5, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, November 5, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

INFANT RITES

Committal rites were to be held at 3:30 p.m. today at Silverbrook Cemetery here for the twin son and daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Norman L. Stark, of 301 South Cass Street, Berrien Springs. The first twin, a girl, was stillborn while the parents were enroute to Pawating Hospital, Niles. The second twin, a boy, was born at 2:16 a.m. at Pawating and died at 4:20 a.m.

Surviving besides the parents are: two sisters, Sandra Jean and Diane Lynn, both at home, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stark, of Buchanan, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schlutt, Sr. of Baroda.

 

 

 

McCormick, Charles Warren

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Charles Warren McCormick
November 4, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, November 5, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

DEATH OF AN INFANT

A son, Charles Warren McCormick, born to Mr. and Mrs. Elroy McCormick of 115 South Third Street, died two hours after birth in Pawating Hospital Monday afternoon.

Committal services will be conducted by the Rev. Earl J. Wickstrom, pastor of the First Baptist Church, at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Silverbrook Cemetery.

 

Westerfield, Hattie May

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Hattie May Westerfield
Jan. 26, 1870-Nov. 6, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, November 7, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Hattie May Westerfield, 87, of 704 Wayne Street, died at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday in her home following an illness of three years.

Mrs. Westerfield was born in Tazewell County, Ill., on Jan. 26, 1870, and came to this community 32 years ago from Dodge City, Kan. Her husband, Noah, died in 1926.

Surviving are: six daughters, Mrs. Clarence Drake, Mrs. Guy Mitchell, Mrs. Minnie Burdue, Mrs. Grace Williams, Mrs. Charles Buck and Mrs. Leslie Jones, all of Niles; a son, Otis Westerfield, serving with the Army in Germany; 20 grandchildren, and 25 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. , Saturday in the Pifer Funeral Home with the Rev. Orlen Njus, pastor of the Bertrand Bible Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

 

Bickford, Maude

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Maude Bickford
Died Nov. 8, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, November 9, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

Former Resident Dies

South Bend--Miss Maude Bickford of 729 California Avenue, South Bend, died Friday morning in her home. She was a former resident of Niles.

Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Clarence Palmer, Orlando, Fla., also a former Niles resident; and a niece, Mrs. Roland Longley, South Bend.

The body was taken to the Welsheimer Funeral Home, South Bend, where friends may call after [illegible].

Funeral services will be held in the Westminister Presbyterian Church in South Bend on Monday.  Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

 

Perkins, Ronald Lee

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Ronald Lee Perkins
Oct. 13, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Monday, October 14, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

INFANT RITES

Committal rites will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Silverbrook Cemetery for Ronald Lee Perkins, infant son of Mr.and Mrs. Forrest Perkins, rural route four, Niles, who died at 11:22 p.m. Sunday in Pawating Hospital where he was born at 9:17 p.m.
Surviving besides the parents are: a brother, Forrest Perkins, Jr., at home, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Perkins and Arthur Blackney, all of Kalamazoo.

Johnson, Scott Allen

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Scott Allen Johnson
Nov. 10, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, November 12, 1957, page 2, col 4, microfilm Niles District Library

INFANT RITES

Committal services for Scott Allen Johnson, son stillborn to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Cottrell Johnson of 1364 Broadway at 11:55 p.m. Sunday at Pawating Hospital, were to be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon at Silverbrook Cemetery with the Rev. Joseph Stanley, pastor of Oak Manor Presbyterian Church, officiating.

 

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