Ella Hand
Sept. 27, 1856-Jan. 24, 1948
Niles Daily Star, Monday, January 26, 1948, page 2, col. 5-6, microfilm Niles District Library
MRS. ELLA HAND, 91
Mrs. Ella Hand, 1401 Regent street, lifelong resident of Niles, passed away Saturday at the Carson Convalescent home, Benton Harbor. She had been ill for one year.
Services will be held at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday at the Kiger funeral home. The rev.L.George Beacock, pastor of the First Methodist church, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.
Mrs. Hand was born Sept. 27, 1856 in Berrien township. She had been a member of the Methodist church.
Her husband, Joe, preceded her in death in 1944.
Surviving are a son, Merl Hand, Berrien Springs; a daughter, Mrs. Carl Dick, Niles; a niece, Mrs. Robert Davis, Berrien Springs; four grandsons, Joseph A. Hand, Lakewood, O., Robert M. Hand, McDonald, Pa., LeRoy Hand, Berrien Center, and Carl Dick,Jr., Niles; two great-grandchildren.
*Michigan Marriages, Ella Green m. Jo Hand, Dec. 14, 1881.