Earl Roger Woods
Oct. 27, 1881-July 24, 1937
Niles Daily Star, Monday, July 26, 1937, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library
SERVICE TUESDAY FOR E.R. WOODS, 55
Retired Business Man, Ill and Despondent, Takes Own Life
Final rites or Earl Roger Woods, 55 of 601 North Fourteenth Street, will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Turner and Pifer funeral home. The rites will be conducted by the Rev. H.L. Nicholson of Trinity Episcopal church. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.
Mr. Woods, a retired dry cleaner and a resident of Niles for the last 43 years shot himself to death in an upstairs bedroom at his home at 4:50 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
He had been in ill health for the past five years, despondency is believed to have been the cause of this act.
Mr. Woods was a member of the Niles lodge of Elks and the Masonic lodge of Shelby, Ohio. He was born in Quincy, Oct. 27, 1881, and moved to Niles from Chicago at the age of 12.
He leaves his wife, Grace, and one son, Louis, Niles; one brother, George, New Buffalo; two sisters, Mrs. B. Moorehead, Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. Ruth Archer, Benton Harbor; also two grandchildren, Jack, 7, and Dale, 5.
Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, July 27, 1937, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
WOODS RITES HELD
The Rev. H.L. Nicholson conducted funeral services at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Turner and Pifer funeral home for Earl Roger Woods, 55, of 601 North Fourteenth street. Niles lodge of Elks, of which Mr. Woods was a member, had charge of the committal services at the grave at Silverbrook cemetery. K.B. Schmidt, Frank Early, Clayton Collins, Edward Wurz, Delano Marston and Thomas Swain served as pallbearers. Mr. Woods committed suicide at his home Saturday afternoon.
Niles Daily Star, Thursday, July 29, 1937, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
ATTEND FUNERAL RITES
Those who came from out-of-town to attend funeral services Tuesday afternoon for Earl Roger Woods were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moorehead, Columbus, O.; Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Archer and daughters, Benton Harbor; Mr.and Mrs. George Woods, New Buffalo; Mr. and Mrs. O.H. Halmeren and daughters, Elgin, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seigel, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hart, Shelby, O.; Mr. and Mrs. O.J. Kenton, Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Kenton, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Swaim, and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Woods, Buchanan; and Mr.and Mrs. Eliart Zimmerman and Mr. and Mrs. William Zimmerman, Bristol, Ind.