Ursela Wellingham
May 4, 1902-Feb. 3, 1963
Niles Daily Star, Monday, February 4, 1963, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library
Funeral services for Mrs. Ursela Wellingham, 60, of 1539 Inner Drive, will be conducted at 2 p.m., Wednesday in the First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. G. Dean Goebel, First Presbyterian minister, and the Rev. Kenneth G. Carey, pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
She died at 6:10 a.m., Sunday in Pawating Hospital where she had been a patient since Dec. 17.
Mrs. Wellingham was born May 4, 1902 in Toledo, Ohio. She came to Niles from Adrian in 1924. Her husband, Paul E., died April 30, 1959.
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. James Gallagher, Niles, Mrs. James Magnees, Lansing, Mrs. Rodney Baum, Loveland, Colo., and Mrs. Martin Robinson, Chicago; a sister, Mrs. Clare Wilson, Tempe, Ariz., ; and six grandchildren.
She was a member of the Pythian Sisters, the Past Chiefs of the Pythian Sisters, and the Lady Trainmen Auxiliary, Maple City Lodge No. 190.
Friends will be received at the Pifer Funeral Home after 7 p.m., today.