Bertha E. Wright
Aug. 25, 1877-June 30, 1954
Mrs. Bertha E. Wright, 902 North Third street, died at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Pawating Hospital. She had been ill for one year.
Her husband, Walter, died in 1951. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Carl Schmidt, of Niles; one grandchild; one brother, Herman Volkhardt, of Niles, and one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Squires, Ypsilanti.
Mrs. Wright was born on Aug.25, 1877, in Nebraska City, Neb., and came here from Nebraska City in 1879. She was a member of St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Church and of the E.L. Hamilton Auxiliary.
Friends may call at the Kiger Funeral Home. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday with Rev. H.A. Meussling, pastor, officiating in St. John's Church. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery
Source: Niles Daily Star, Thursday, July 1, 1954, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
