Cora E. Carpenter
Aug. 23, 1883-May 5, 1961
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Saturday, May 6, 1961, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Cora E. Carpenter, 77, 940 N. 5th St. died at 9:40 p.m. Friday in her home following an illness of two years.
Mrs. Carpenter, a retired employee of the Four Flags Hotel where she had worked for 30 years, was born Aug. 23, 1883 in Akron, Ind., and moved to Niles in 1920 from Rochester, Ind. Her husband, Frank, preceded her in death in 1951.
Surviving are a son, Doyle Carpenter, Smyrna, Del; a daughter, Mrs. Theodore Helt, Niles; four grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Pifer Funeral Home with the Rev. John P. MacLachlan, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends are being received at the funeral home.