Charles W. Sanders
April 29, 1913 – Dec. 15, 2007
Charles W. Sanders, 94, formerly of Edwardsburg and U.S.-12 East, Niles, died at 6:20 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007, at Cass County Medical Care Facility, Cassopolis, after an illness.
Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. today, Monday, Dec. 17, at the Paul E. Mayhew Funeral Home, Edwardsburg.
Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles, on Wednesday at 11 a.m.
Friends may call tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home.
He was born on April 29, 1913, in Bloomington, Ind. To William Sanders and Josephine Crane and came to Edwardsburg and Niles in 1933. He graduated from Eletsville High School in Indiana.
Sanders was a Union carpenter of Benton Harbor, also a self-employed carpenter. He formerly worked at Studebakers.
He was a member of the Local Carpenters Union of Benton Harbor, Draft Horse Association.
In 1936, in Niles, he married Carol Fein, who died July 2, 1968.
His surviving family includes a son, Gary (Carla) Sanders of Edwardsburg; a daughter, Robin (Glenn) Emenaker of Vandalia; five grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Ernest “Sonny” Sanders in 1968; a daughter, Rosalie Bader in 1991; brother, Wall, Joe, Merle and Berle and two sisters, Alice and Carolyn.
Arrangements were by Paul E. Mayhew Funeral Home, Edwardsburg.
From microfilm at Niles District Library, Niles, Berrien, Michigan, Niles Daily Star, Niles, Berrien, Michigan, Monday, Dec. 17, 2007; page 02; col. 02.