Cora Georgia (Wilson) Cheney
May 17, 1892-May 2, 1945
Niles Daily Star, Thursday, May 3, 1945, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Cheney, 52, Dies Wednesday
Mrs. Cora Georgia Cheney, 52 of 1408 Silverbrook Avenue, died at 10:10 a.m. Wednesday in the home of her sister-in-law in Kalamazoo. She had been ill for a year.
Born in Iowa May 17, 1892, Mrs. Cheney had lived in Niles for 35 years.
Surviving are her husband, L.D. Cheney; three sons, Lyle Cheney of Sheppard Field, Tex, Leonard Cheney of Camp Blanding, Fla, and Burton Cheney in the South Pacific; four daughters, Wanda Cheney and Mrs. Ernest Havener, Niles, Mrs. Alvin Hartline, Galien and Mrs. Charles Schau, Dayton; two sisters, Mrs. May Holmes, Glenwood and Mrs. Eva Foote, Jackson, and a brother, George Wilson, Joliet, Ill.
Friends may call at the Kiger funeral home where services will be conducted by the Rev. Theo Eisen, followed by burial in the Silverbrook Cemetery. Arrangements are incomplete awaiting word from her son.
Niles Daily Star, Friday, May 4, 1945, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
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Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Georgia Cheney, 52, of 1408 Silverbrook avenue, will be conducted at 2 p.m Saturday in the Kiger funeral chapel by the Rev. Theo Eisen. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery. Mrs. Cheney died Wednesday in the home of her sister in Kalamazoo.