Myron E. Bidwell
April 6, 1866-Aug. 16, 1935
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, August 17, 1935, page 1, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library
FORMER DRUGGIST CLAIMED BY DEATH
Myron E. Bidwell Succumbs After Two Years' Illness; Services Sunday
Myron E. Bidwell, former Niles druggist, died Friday afternoon at his home, 122 Silverbrook avenue, after a two years' illness of angina pectoris.
For a number of years Mr. Bidwell conducted the drug store here which was afterward sold to the Dean Drug company and is now known as Dean's No. 2 store. He purchased the business from E.H. Griffin in 1921 and continued its operation until failing health forced him to retire.
Mr. Bidwell was born in Girard, Mich., April 6, 1866. He was married Nov. 15, 1893, to Elizabeth Y. Ackerman, at Dowagiac, who survives him; also two children, Mrs. Evangeline Fink, of Mishawaka, and Seth Bidwell of Grand Rapids. He leaves two brothers, Ray Bidwell, Adrian, and Fred Bidwell, Coldwater, and a sister, Mrs. Dora Arthur, of Pasadena, Calif., and three grandchildren, Betty Lou and James Fink, of Mishawaka and Seth Bidwell, Grand Rapids.
He came to Niles from Coldwater and had lived here since 1916. His business activity covered a period of 40 years in the drug business. He was a member of the Methodist church.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the Price and Kiger funeral chapel. Dr. Robert E. Meader, of the Niles Methodist Church, and the Rev. O.R. Grattan of St. Joseph, will officiate. Burial will be in the mausoleum at Silverbrook cemetery.
Friends of the family may call at the Price and Kiger funeral home until the hour of the service.
Niles Daily Star, Monday, August 19, 1935, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
BIDWELL RITES SUNDAY
Funeral services for Myron E. Bidwell, 122 Silverbrook avenue, who died at his home Friday, were held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the Price and Kiger funeral home. Dr. Robert E. Meader, of the Niles Methodist church, and the Rev. O.R. Grattan of St. Joseph, oficiated[sic]. Burial was in the mausoleum at Silverbrook cemetery.