Bertha Rigney
March 10, 1896-Jan. 4, 1956
Mrs. Bertha Rigney, 59, died at 9:11 a.m. Wednesday in the home of her sister, Mrs. Clifford Hill, 2440 Lake Street, where she had made her home. She had been in poor health for the past four years.
Mrs. Rigney was born March 10, 1896, in Clark County, IL, and moved to Niles in 1941 from Arkansas.
Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Etta Miller of Niles; a daughter, Mrs. Robert Taylor, of Buchanan; two sons, Levi Pearson Stover, of Mishawaka, Ind., and Virgil Stover of Niles; four brothers, Walter J. Miller, of Barron Lake, Milo T., of Fordyce, Ark., Willis, of Tinsman, Ark., and Howard of Niles; and one other sister, Miss Natalie Miller of Fordyce.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Pifer Funeral Home here with the Rev. Clarence Pedersen, pastor of the First Assembly of God Church here, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Niles Daily Star, Thursday, January 5, 1956, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library