Ernest A. Reum
Oct. 27, 1879-January 10, 1956
Ernest A. Reum, 76, of 918 Lake Street, died suddenly Tuesday in his home.
Reum was born Oct. 27, 1879 in Germany and came to this country in 1927 and worked for the Kawneer Co., for 18 years before retiring in 1945.
Survivors are his widow Ernestine, two daughters, Mrs. Berta Stracke of St. Joseph and Mrs. Caroline Thorpe of Auburn, Ind, two[sic] sons, Karl, Arthur and August, all of Niles, William of Bremerton, Wash., and Richard of St. Joseph, 11 grandchildren and one sister, Enna Bohle of Germany.
Services will be held at 3:30 pm. Friday at the Pifer Funeral Home with the Rev. Theodore Laesch of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, January 11, 1956, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library.