Sarley, James

James Sarley
1892-1942


    James Sarley, Sr., 50, co-owner of the Sarley and Biek Sheet Metal company, died at 1:45 Sunday morning in his farm home on M-60 east, after a few hours illness of heart trouble.
    Sarley came from Chicago, where he was born May 13, 1892, to the Howard township farm in 1932.  He farmed until 1935 after which he was employed one years by the Tyler Fixture corporation and in 1936 joined the staff of the Schoolcraft Sheet Metal Works.
    On Jan. 1, 1941, he formed a partnership with Ray C. Biek, formerly of Dowagiac, and bought the works from Frank Schoolcraft.
    Surviving with his widow, the former Hannah Ulrich to whom he was married April 18, 1814 in Chicago, are three sons and a daughter, Warren, Virginia, and James Sarley, Jr., Niles and Willard Sarley, who is stationed at Scottfiled, Ill.
    He also leaves his mother, Mrs. Marie A Sarley, Chicago; a grandson, Robert Earl Earley, Niles; and six brothers and two sisters, Rocco, Ernest and Anthony Sarley, Mrs. L. Worts and Mrs. John Passarella, all of Chicago; Michael Sarley, Antioch, Ill.; Ralph Sarley, Elmwood Park, Ill., and Frank Sarley, Aurora, Ill.
    Friends may call at the Rutherford funeral home where the service will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 (EWT). The Rev. J. Kenneth Hoffmaster, pastor of the Methodist church, will officiate.  Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.
(Source:  Niles Daily Star, Monday, October 5, 1942, page 2, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library)