Nancy Pauline DeShazer
May 29, 1903-Feb. 25, 1960
Niles Daily Star, Thursday, February 25, 1960, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Herman (Nancy Pauline) DeShazer, 56, 1102 N. 8th St., died at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday in Pawating Hospital where she had been a patient since Feb. 12. She had been in failing health for three years.
Mrs. DeShazer was born May 29, 1903, in Brookhaven, Miss., and came to Niles 17 years ago from Hollandale, Miss.
Surviving are: her husband; three sons, Anzie DeShazer, Hollandale, Miss., Curtis Cotton, Brookhaven, Miss., and Johnnie Cotton, St. Louis, Mo.; three daughters, Mrs. Laurice Bryant, Brookhaven,, Mrs. Ethel Maxwell, Niles, and Mrs. Pauline Foster, Greenville, Miss.; 24 grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Clydee Grant, Brookhaven and a half-brother, Arthur Grant of Chicago.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in Mount Calvary Baptist Church here with the pastor, Rev. Theodis Hadley, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home beginning Saturday afternoon.