Emma Bliss
1901 to 1971
Mrs. Emma Bliss
Mrs. Emma H. Bliss, 69, of 1279 Rose Dr., died at 9:05 a.m.Sunday in Buchanan
Community Hospital where she had been a patient for one week.
An employe in the bindery department of Simplicity Pattern Co., for 24 years, Mrs.
Bliss was born Aug. 9, 1901, in Michigan City, Ind., and had lived here since 1921. On
Dec. 10, 1949, in South Bend, she married Edward L. Bliss, who survives.
Also surviving are a stepson, Theodore Bliss of Niles; three daughters, Mrs.
Virginia Kiste and Mrs. Marion Gold, both of Niles, and Mrs. Emmajean Felhauer of South
Bend; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Patricia Ann Teeter of Vandalia, 12 grandchildren and six great
-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Pifer Funeral Home, with
the Rev. Theodore Laesch of St. Paul's Lutheran church officiating. Burial will be in
Silverbrook Cemetery.
Friends may call after 7 tonight at the funeral home.
(Source: Niles Daily Star, Monday, March 1, 1971, page 2, col. 1-2, Microfilm Niles
District Library)