Lloyd W. Ostrander
Feb. 2, 1883-Sept. 3, 1963
Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, September 3, 1963, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Lloyd W. Ostrander, 80, of 1438 Oak St., retired grocer and butcher, died at 5:15 a.m. today in Pawating Hospital. He had been in the hospital since Aug. 12.
A native of Indiana, Mr. Ostrander was born Feb. 2, 1883, in Mishawaka. He moved to Niles from South Bend 51 years ago and opened a grocery and meat market which he operated for 32 years.
Mr. Ostrander, a life member of St. Joseph Valley Lodge No. 4, Free and Accepted Masons . .. [illegible] . .his wife, Gertrude, on Feb. 1 of this year.
Surviving are a daughter, Aleta Styers, Niles; two sons, Lloyd M. Ostrander, South Bend, and J. Paul Ostrander, St. Claire Shores; a sister, Mrs. Iva Imbody, Fort Wayne, Ind.; two brothers, Joseph Ostrander, Fort Wayne, and William C. Ostrander, Edwardsburg; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. at the Pifer Funeral Home, Thursday, with the Lodge No. 4 . . .[illegible] . . Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home.