Clara Anderson
May 25, 1910-March 17, 1954
Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, March 17, 1954, page 2, col. 7, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Clara Anderson, 102 1/2 North Front street, died suddenly at 12:55 a.m. today at Pawating Hospital. She complained of pain in the midcpigastic region and went to the hospital but died just outside the emergency room door of the hospital, according to the hospital.
Surviving are two sons, Calvin Anderson, a corporal serving with the Army in Germany, and James McCullem, of Cairo, Ill., and one daughter, Arlene Anderson, at home.
Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home, starting Thursday night. Funeral arrangements are incomplete, and will be announced later.
Niles Daily Star, Thursday, March 18, 1954, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library
A complete list of survivors and funeral arrangements of Mrs. Clara Anderson, 102 1/2 North Front street, have been reported.
Services will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Pifer Funeral Home, with the Rev. J.L. Wingate, pastor of Franklin AME Church, officiating, and burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home, starting tonight.
Surviving Mrs. Anderson who died at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, besides her husband, Edward Anderson, of Arlington, Tenn., are three children, Calvin Anderson, a corporal in the Army stationed in Germany, James McCullem, Cairo, Ill., and Miss Earlene Anderson, at home; three sisters, Mrs. Virginia McClendon, of Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. Roxie Colbert, of Holcomb, Miss., and Mrs. Georgie Jones, of Cairo, Ill., and three brothers, William Edmond, of Holcomb, Miss., Nathaniel Edmond, of Cairo, Ill., and James Edmond, of Chicago.
Mrs. Anderson was born on May 25, 1910, in Granada, Miss., and came here from Cairo, Ill., four years ago.