Email "Emil" Herman Rossow
Jan. 9, 1895-Feb. 20, 1974
Niles Daily Star, Friday, February 22, 1974, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
NILES--Email "Emil" Herman Rossow, 79, of 219 N. Front St., died at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in Pawating Hospital after an illness of one month.
A retired employe of the water department at Kankakee, Ill., Mr. Rossow was born Jan. 9, 1895, in Great Bend, N.D., and had lived here for 15 years. On June 15, 1948, in Kankakee, he married the former Lilly May Leonard, who survives.
Also surviving are two sons, Vernon A. and Eldon, both of South Bend; a stepdaughter, Mrs. L.A. Berneau of Wichita, Kan.; a brother, Julius of Whapton, M.D., nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am. Saturday in the Pifer Chapel of the Swem-Smith Funeral Home, with the Rev. Willis Weaver of the Niles Church of the Nazarene officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
Friends are calling at the funeral home.