Loren R. Babcock
Jan. 20, 1910-June 19, 1964
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, June 20, 1964, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Loren R. Babcock, 54, of 224 Reum Road, died at 10 p.m. Friday in Hines Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, Ill., where he had been admitted earlier in the day. He had been in ill health for four years..
Mr. Babcock was born here Jan. 20, 1910, and was a lifetime resident of the community. He was a retired switchman of the New York Central Railroad.
Surviving are his widow, Henrietta, and his mother, Mrs. Sarah Babcock, Niles.
He was a veteran of World War II, and a member of the Disabled American Veterans and the First Baptist Church.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Pifer Funeral Home. The Rev. Earl J. Wickstrom, pastor of his church, will officiate. Committal rites conducted by American Legion Post No. 26 will follow in Silverbrook Cemetery.
Friends will be received at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Sunday.