Smith, Emma (Bowerman)

Emma Smith
June 18, 1872-January 8, 1941

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, January 9, 1941, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library


    Mrs. Emma Smith, 68, died Wednesday night at 6 in Pawating hospital after an illness of three years.  She came to Niles a year ago to live in the home of a sister, Mrs. Arvilla Bleazby, 1529 Maple street.
    Mrs. Smith was born in Warsaw, Ind., June 18, 1872 and came  to Niles from LaPorte. Her husband, George Smith, died Dec. 23, 1939 in LaPorte. Survivors include three other sisters. Mrs. Joseph McLaughlin, Route 3, Niles; Mrs. Laura Helms, near South Bend, and Mrs. Pearl Whitmore, South Bend, and a brother, Henry B. Bowerman, west of Buchanan.
    Friends may call at the Price and Kiger funeral home where services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2.  The Rev. A.R. Kuehn, pastor of the First Evangelical church will officiate.  Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, January 11, 1941, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library


    The Rev. A.R. Kuehn officated this afternoon at 2 in the Price and Kiger chapel at services for Mrs. Emma Smith.  Mrs. Smith, who had been living in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arvilla Bleazby, 1529 Maple street, died in Pawating hospital Wednesday night.
    Relatives of Mrs. Smith were casket bearers.  They were Lyle and Ray Bowerman, Niles; Clarence and Ralph Mathewes, South Bend, and Victor and Ray Adams, Warsaw, Ind.
    Burial was in Silverbrook cemetery.