Jessie A. Coons
Dec. 30, 1863-July 25, 1936
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, July 25, 1936, page 1, col. 7, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Jessie Coons, Dies Suddenly This Morning at Age 72
Mrs. Jessie A. Coons, 72, wife of Charles A. Coons, 920 South Seventeenth street, died suddenly this morning at 3:15 o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Coons celebrated last Sunday their 53d wedding anniversary, a quiet celebration owing to the condition of Mrs. Coons' health.
Mrs. Coons was born in Niles Dec. 30, 1863, and had spent her entire life here. Her parents also were natives of this section of the county.
Beside her husband she leaves two sons, Ralph, State Line, and Clyde, South Bend; two daughters, Mrs. Gladys Young, Niles, and Mrs. Marie Morehouse, Coldwater, also 18 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clck in the First Baptist church. The Rev. J.F. Goodman will officiate and burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery. Friends of the family are asked to call at the family home until the hour of the funeral.
Niles Daily Star, Monday, July 27, 1936, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
Niles News in Brief: COONS SERVICE TODAY
Services were to be held today at 2 o'clock in the First Baptist church for Mrs. Jessie Coons, 72, who died Saturday morning at her home, 920 South Seventeenth street. The Rev. James f. Goodman will officiate and burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.