Earl A. Zechlin
Feb. 8, 1897-March 18, 1960
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, March 19, 1960, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Earl A. Zechlin, 63, 1343 Ferry st., died at 10:40 p.m. Friday in Pawating Hospital where he had been a patient since March 6.
Mr. Zechlin, a department manager at the Montgomery Ward & Co. store here, was born Feb. 8, 1897, in Niles, and was married on Nov. 5, 1933, in Community Church, New Carlisle, Ind., to Hulda L. Barnes. He was a member of the Niles Elks Lodge and the Masonic Lodge here.
Surviving are: his widow; a daughter, Mrs. Winifred Lepel, Niles; three grandchildren, and three brothers, Frank, Eli and George Zechlin, all of Niles.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Kiger and Halbritter Funeral Home here with the Rev. Herbert Meussling, pastor of St. John's United Church of Christ, Evangelical and Reformed, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery with Masonic rites at the graveside. Friends are being received at the funeral home.