Marie E. Harrah
Dec. 31, 1874-March 17, 1963
Niles Daily Star, Monday, March 18, 1963, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. W.F. Harrah, Widow of N-S Co-Founder, Succumbs
FUNERAL services for Mrs. W.F. (Marie E.) Harrah, 88, widow of William F. Harrah, co-founder of National-Standard Co., will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. John MacLachlan, pastor, will officiate. Interment will be in the Harrah room of the Silverbrook Cemetery mausoleum.
Mrs. Harrah died at 7 a.m. Sunday in her home at Berrien Crest.
She was born Marie Even on Dec. 31, 1874 in Peoria, Ill. She was married in February 1894 in Des Moines, Iowa, and came to Niles from that city in 1905. Mr. Harrah founded the National Wire Cloth Co. in that year. It was later the National Cable Co., which merged with the Cook-Standard Tool Co. to become known as the National-Standard Co. She as the first secretary-accountant of he original companies.
Survivors include a son, Clayton C., of Niles, and two grandchildren.
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SHE WAS a lifelong member and was active in all activities of the Presbyterian Church, where she established and staffed an emergency hospital during the influenza epidemic in the winter of 1917-18, prior to adequate hospital facilities in Niles. She was in charge of Red Cross medical activities during World War I. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, the Sans Souci Dancing club, organized during the early war years, the Ladies Reading Club, and the Niles Club of Home Gardens.
Friends are being received at the Kiger Funeral Home.