Thomas W. Cain
February 16, 1918-February 19, 1961
Judge Cain Succumbs Sunday at Ann Arbor
Niles municipal court judge Thomas W. Cain, 310 Broadway, died at 7:45 p.m. Sunday in University Hospital in Ann Arbor just three days after his 43rd birthday.
He had been ill for two months and was transferred from Pawating Hospital to Ann Arbor on Thursday.
Born on Feb. 16, 1918, in South Bend, he had lived his lifetime in Niles. In 1935, he graduated from Niles High School and in 1939 he graduated from University of Michigan.
Crippling injuries in a 1941 auto accident near Stevensville could not hold his ambition and in 1943, after completing his studies at his Niles home, he graduated from Notre Dame Law School.
He served as Niles Justice of the Peace from 1945 to 1956. In May 1956, he was appointed by Mayor Edwin Cramer as the city’s first Municipal Judge and he won election the post in April 1957, for a six year term.
He had been a law partner of Atty. Keith Ball since 1957.
Long active in area Republican politics, he was also a member of the Niles Rotary Club of which he was secretary, Niles Elks Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police, American Bar Association; State Bar of Michigan, Berrien County Bar Association: the Pickwick Club and Orchard Hills County Club.
Surviving are the Widow, Mildred; daughter, Cathy at home; and his mother, Mrs. Grace Cain.
Friends may call in the Kiger and Halbritter Funeral Home after 7 p.m. today.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the First Presbyterian Church, of which he had been a member, with the Rev. John P. MacLachlan officiating. Burial will be at the Silverbrook Cemetery Mausoleum.
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