HATTIE A. HESS
abt 1866-Aug. 1, 1937
MRS. HATTIE HESS, MOTHER OF 11, DIES
Prominent Church Worker Succumbs to Five-Year Illness Sunday
Mrs. Hattie A. Hess, 66, mother of 11 children, died at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning in her home, 915 North Third Street. Mrs. Hess had been in ill health for the past five years, but her condition was not considered serious until six months ago.
She had lived in Niles almost her entire life, having moved here with her parents at the age of two from Saxony, Germany. She was married April 15, 1891, to Richard W. Hess by the late Rev. Rahn in St. John's Evangelical church.
Besides her husband, she leaves four sons, Arthur F., Edward P. and Melvin, all of Niles; Clarence J, Marshall, and William K., Kalamazoo; one daughter, Miss Minnie Hess, Niles; two sisters, Mrs. Adam Kinsel, Three Oaks, and Mrs. Mary Dittmer, Buchanan; a half-brother, Charles Schauber, Niles, and four grandchildren.
Two daughters, Mrs. Hattie Peterson, and Mrs. Esther Kosin, and three sons, Leo, Carl and Harold, preceded their mother in death.
Mrs. Hess was an active member of St. John's Evangelical church and its Ladies' Aid society.
Funeral services will be held in the church at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon with the Rev. Theo Eisen officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.
The body will lie in state at the church from 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon until the hour of the funeral .
Niles Daily Star, Monday, August 2, 1937, page 1, col. 8, microfilm Niles District Library