Birton* C. Jayson
Sept. 7, 1892-March 30, 1974
Niles Daily Star, Monday, April 1, 1974, page 3, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
NILES--Birton C. Jayson, 81, of 2236 N. Fifth St., Died at 10:35 p.m. Saturday in Pawating Hospital after an illness of several weeks.
A member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Mr. Jayson was a retired carrier with the U.S. Postal Service. He was born Sept. 7, 1892, in St. Joseph County, Ind., and had lived here since 1910. On June 6, 1915, in South Bend, he married the former Anna C. Hames, who died in 1966.
Surviving are a son, Wesley of Niles, one grandchild and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 11 am. Tuesday in the Halbritter Funeral Home, with the Rev. Theodore Laesch of St. Paul's Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home.
*Inscription on gravemarker says Burton C. Jayson. However, Michigan Death record, Social Security Death Index, and WWI Draft Registration (which has his signature) has the name spelled Birton.