Katherine S. Courser
Dec. 30, 1952-Feb. 5, 2008
By Staff
Katherine S. "Cooky" Courser, 55, of East Main Street, Niles, died at 6:18 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, at Lakeland Community Hospital, Niles, following a very brief illness.
Funeral services will be at 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8, at Halbritter Funeral Home, Niles, with the Rev. Jim Wing, pastor of First Baptist Church, Niles, officiating.
Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles.
Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday at the funeral home.
She was born on Dec. 30, 1952, in Fort Knox, Kentucky, to Joseph V. Grishaber, Sr. and Ellie L. Connor Grishaber. She lived most of her life in Niles and graduated from Niles High School in 1971.
She was currently employed at the South Bend Clinic.
A former member of the Gold Wing Road RIders Association in Benton Harbor, Courser enjoyed gardening, yardwork, cooking and baking cookies. She loved being a grandmother.
On April 3, 1971, in Niles, she married Duane O. Courser, who survives.
Additional surviving family includes, two daughters, Nichole "Nickki" (Dan) Enyeart of South Bend, Ind. and Raegan M. (Corey) Weaver of Buchanan; grandchildren, Kiah and Klay Weaver and two brothers, Gary Lee (Diane) Grishaber of Niles and Theodore J. (Dee) Grishaber of Eagon, Minn.
She was preceded in death by her father, Joseph V. Grishaber, Sr., who died March 31, 1980; her mother, Ellie L. Grishaber, Sr., who died Sept. 15, 2007 and a brother, Joseph V. Grishaber, Jr., who died in September of 1998.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society,
Arrangements were by Halbritter Funeral Home, Niles.