Nancy Colby Summers
Jan. 30, 1835-June 20, 1915
Niles Daily Sun, Monday, June 21, 1915, page 4, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
FALL RESULTS IN LADY'S DEATH
Mrs. N. Summers, Aged 80 Was Stricken With Paralysis Sunday as She Was Leaving the Church.
The sudden death of Mrs. Nancy Colby Summers occurred at noon Sunday as she was leaving the Evangelical church, where she had attended morning service, although by faith she was a member of the Baptist church with which she united while a young woman and had always been a faithful member.
Mrs. Summers was seen by passersby to stand on the top of the church steps for a moment and then suddenly to fall to the sidewalk below, striking upon her head. She was carried to the home of Fred Lingafelt, nearby and the ambulance was summoned to take her home, but she had already passed away by the time the ambulance arrived. The attending physicians attribute her death to a fractured skull and the fall no doubt resulted from a stroke of paralysis.
About four years ago Mrs. Summers had a fall that left her a cripple, but she was always cheerful and spent her declining years in doing for others and often spoke of her thankfulness that she could work with her fingers though deprived of more active work.
She reared a large family of children, some of whom have gone before her and those left to mourn for her can truly mourn--not alone her children, but her many friends of all ages, for she loved everyone.
She was born in Wellington, Ohio, Jan. 30, 1835, and was deprived of her own mother when three days old. She was brought to Niles in her infancy and had practically always reside here.
After her marriage to George W. Summers they at once took up their residence on a farm west of Niles and she continued to reside there for a number of years after his death, about 38 years ago.
Mrs. Summers is survived by four daughters, Mesdames Charles Potter, Charles Sinclair and S.G. Deam of Niles and Mrs. Ralph Clement of Kalamazoo.
The funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Potter, with whom she had resided for the past seven years.
Those services will be private.
The friends wishing to view the remains may do so from 2 until 5 Tuesday.
Rev. Lyons and Rev. Renner will conduct the services. Interment will occur at Silver Brook cemetery.