Clara Bracken
Nov. 15, 1872-Sept. 22, 1963
Niles Daily Star, Monday, September 23, 1963, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Funeral services for Miss Clara Bracken, 90, of 621 N. 6th St., will be conducted at 2 pm. Wednesday in the Kiger Funeral Home. The Rev. John MacLachlan, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
She died at 4:30 p.m. Sunday in Pawating Hospital, shortly after being admitted.
Miss Bracken was born Nov. 15, 1872, in Brighton, Iowa. She lived most of her life here.
Surviving are five nieces, Mrs. Arthur Storms, Benton Harbor, Mrs. Robert Lyons, Mount Prospect, Ill., Mrs. John Jackson, Ozark, Ala., Mrs. E.J. Larsen, St. Petersburg, Fla., and Mrs. William Briggs, Champaign, Ill.; and two nephews, Wallace Bracken, New York State, and Worth Bracken, Fort Worth, Tex.
She was the oldest charter member of the First Presbyterian Church.
Friends are being received at the funeral home.