Cecilia Hazel Armstrong
Sept. 13, 1900-Feb. 14, 1960
Niles Daily Star, Monday, February 15, 1960, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Howard J. (Cecilia Hazel) Armstrong, 59, 2634 S. 13th St., well known Niels area community resident, died at 8:40 p.m. Sunday in Pawating Hospital where she had been a patient for four days. She had been ill for three weeks.
Mrs. Armstrong was born Sept. 13, 1900, in Chicago and came here 35 years ago from Chicago. Her husband preceded her in death in 1938.
In 1958, Mrs. Armstrong was presented the distinguished service award for 35 years service to the Parent-Teachers Assn.She was a member of St. Mark Catholic Church, the Altar and Rosary Society of the church, the Bertrand Missionary Society and was . . .[illegible]. . .and, at the time of her death was serving as neighborhood chairman of the Girl Scouts of the Brandywine area.
Surviving are: nine children, Mrs. Ernest Ringer, Richard Armstrong, Mrs. Bruce Benton and Miss Ellen Armstrong, all Niles, Mrs. George Stokes, Lawton, Okla., Warren and John Armstrong, both Alberquerque, N.M., Mrs. Fred Brill, Arlington, Tex., and Mrs. Crawford Garrett, Benton, Ark.; 13 grandchildren, and a brother, Edward Lowery, Santa Monica, Calif.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday in St. Mark Church with the pastor, the Rev. Francis E. Timmons, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. The Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Kiger and Halbritter Funeral Home here where friends may call.