Joseph Machalleck
Oct. 25, 1888-January 14, 1956
Joseph Machalleck, 67, of 105 North 15th Street, retired New York Central railroad engineer, died at 6:45 p.m. Saturday in the Sunnybrook Nursing Home at Roseland, Ind., following an illness of about seven months.
Machalleck was born Oct. 25, 1888, in Cassville, Wis., and moved to Niles in 1921 from Michigan City, Ind. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers.
Survivors are his wife, Ella; two sons, John and Robert Machalleck, both of Niles; six grandchildren; a brother, George Machalleck, of Michigan City, and Mrs. Barbara Everett, of Niles.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Pifer Funeral Home here with the Rev. Theodore Laesch, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Niles Daily Star, Monday, January 16, 1956, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
