Hojara, Stanley

Stanley Hojara
Dec. 3, 1880-June 15, 1963

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, June 15, 1963, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Stanley Hojara, 82, of 2713 S. 3rd St., died at 5 a.m. today in the Berrien County Hospital, Berrien Center. He had been ill a year.

Mr. Hojara was born Dec. 3, 1880, in Poland. He came to Niles from Pennsylvania about 50 years ago.

Survivors include six sons, Edmund, Evin, Clem, and Floyd, all of Niles, Henry, Three Rivers,and Victor, Lake Wales, Fla.; two daughters, Mrs. Rose Lamenski, South Bend, and Mrs. Evelyn Colcord, Detroit; and a brother, Mike, also of Detroit.

Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a.m. Monday in St. Mary's Catholic Church. The Rev. Cletus M. Rose, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends are being received at the Pifer Funeral Home, where the Rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.