Lawrence A. Chamberlain
July 9, 1897-August 23, 1930
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co, MI), Monday, August 25, 1930, page 1, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library
L.A. CHAMBERLAIN, M.C. TICKET AGENT, DIES IN HOSPITAL.
Lawrence A. Chamberlain, 33, for 15 years a Michigan Central ticket agent in Niles and Buchanan, died on Saturday evening at 8:30 in Pawating hospital following an operation. Mr. Chamberlain had been day ticket agent for the Michigan Central in Niles for 13 years and for two years previous to the service here had been in the Buchanan office of the same railroad company. He was widely known in railroad circles.
The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 in the Rutherford Funeral Home, the Rev. G. W. Webbink, pastor of St. John’s Evangelical Church will officiate. Burial will be made in Silver Brook Cemetery. The Niles lodge of Elks will conduct the committal services.
Mr. Chamberlain was born on July 9, 1897, on Portage Prairie, a son, of Alfred and Emma Chamberlain. He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Emma Chamberlain and son, Alfred at home, by his father, Alfred Chamberlain of Chain O’Lakes Road, South Bend, his mother, Mrs. David Overmeyer of South Bend, a sister, Mrs. Harold Neese of Cassopolis, a brother, Roscoe Chamberlain of South Bend and the following half brothers and step brothers, Glen and Bruce Overmeyer of South Bend, Harold and Alea Overmeyer of Niles and Cleon Overmeyer of Detroit.
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co, MI), Tuesday, August 26, 1930, page 4, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
Niles News in Brief: FUNERAL L. CHAMBERLAIN
Funeral services for Lawrence Chamberlain, Michigan Central ticket agent who died on Saturday evening, where held this afternoon. The Rev. W.G. Webbink, pastor of St. John's Evangelical church, conducted the services. The officers of the Niles lodge of Elks were in Charge of the committal services at Silver Brook cemetery. The pallbearers were chosen from among friends of the deceased in railroad circles and the Elks lodge membership.