Edward E. Anderson
Dec. 15, 1915-Nov. 23, 1961
Niles Daily Star, Friday, November 24, 1961, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Edward Anderson, Partner in Downtown Store, Dies
EDWARD E. Anderson, 45, 738 Oak St., co-owner of Andy's store in Downtown Niles, died of a heart attack at 4:21 a.m. Thursday in Pawating Hospital where he had been a patient for four weeks.
Mr. Anderson was born Dec. 15, 1915, in Chicago, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Anderson Sr., and came to Niles in 1926 from Oshkosh, Wis.
He and his brother, Carl, operated the Andy's store as a partnership since 1946 when their mother retired from active business. The business had been established in Niles in 1926 by the senior Mr. Anderson, who died in 1929.
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He was a member of First Presbyterian Church, had served as chairman of the business division of United Fund of Greater Niles in 1959 and 1960, had once served as chairman of the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Niles, and had been an member of the advisory . . . [illegible]. .Corps.
Surviving are his widow, Donna; his mother, Mrs. Ellen McDowell, Canoga Park, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Richard Humbarger, Chicago, and Gail and Jane, both at home; his brother and business partner, Carl, 1542 Cherry St., and three sisters, Mrs. John Machalleck, 742 Oak St., Mrs. George Lees, Lakeland, Fla., and Mrs. Kent Rogers, Canoga Park, Calif.
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FUNERAL SERVICES will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the First Presbyterian Church with the pastor, the Rev. John P. MacLachlan, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
Friends will be received at the Pifer Funeral Home after 7 p.m., Saturday.