Mrs. Hazel Young
April 14, 1897-Aug. 25, 1950
Mrs. Hazel Young, 53, of rural route six, died at 9:30 a.m. Friday in Del Vista sanitarium, Plainwell, after an illness of eight months.
Mrs. Young was born April 14, 1897, in Detroit, and moved to Niles in 1922 from Bridgman. She was a member of the Michigan City Baptist church.
Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Milton, Updike, her husband, Paul, a daughter, Mrs. Fred Noecker, all of Niles; a son, George Watson, of St. Joseph, two grandchildren; three brothers, Ralph Cross, Harold Cross and Clifford Cross, all of Niles, and a sister, Mrs. Wilson Carter, of Bertrand.
Friends may call at the Kiger funeral home Sunday and Monday to the time of the funeral, 2 p.m. Monday. Services will be conducted at the funeral home by the Rev. Clarence Graham, and burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, August, 26, 1950, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library.