Christian Dittmer
July 22, 1844-February 26, 1930
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Thursday, February 27, 1930, page 4, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library
Niles News in Brief: FUNERAL CHRISTIAN DITTMER
Funeral services for Christian Dittmer will be held on Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Troost and Augustine chapel. The Rev. G.W. Webbink pastor of St. John’s Evangelical church will officiate. Burial will be made in Silverbrook Cemetery where Mrs. Dittmer was buried on Feb. 1. The same friends who served as pallbearers at her funeral will be the pallbearers at his funeral. Mr. Dittmer was born in Saxony Germany on July 22, 1844. He came to the United States when he was 18 years old. He was married on April 13, 1869 to Eva Maria Vetter. He is survived by a daughter, Melinda. Mr. Dittmer died early Wednesday [Feb. 26, 1930]. He had lived on a farm southwest of Niles on the river road for 57 years continuously.