Mrs. Lena White
1879-1942
Ill only a few minutes after suffering a heart attack, Mrs. Lena Pearl White, 65, died at 9:30 Sunday night in her home at 1029 North Front street.
A resident of Niles 35 years, she was active in the Methodist church and its Berean class and Women's Society of Christian Service, and in the Niles Musical club.
Mrs. White was born on a farm north of Niles July 22, 1879, a daughter of the late Justus and Eliza Steiner. She was married to Louis Hammond in 1900 in Decatur after which she moved to Kalamazoo and then to Niles. She is survived by George S. White, to whom she was married in 1913.
She also leaves a daughter, Miss Stella Lou Hammond, a teacher in the Pontiac public schools; two brothers, William Steiner, Niles, and Frank Steiner, South Bend, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Wells, Dowagiac.
Friends may call at the White home where the funeral will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 3 by the Rev. J. Kenneth Hoffmaster, pastor of the Methodist church. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.
(Source: Niles Daily Star, Monday Oct. 5, 1942, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library)