Robert Emmett Clark
1883-April 10, 1944
Niles Daily Star, Friday, April 14, 1944, page 1, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Robert Clark Dies 4 Years After “Death”
This is the story of a man who left Niles some 17 years ago, and lived three or four years after his “death.”
He was Robert Emmett Clark, whose body is being brought here from Lincoln, Neb., for funeral rites and burial.
Clark, The Star learned today, left Niles in 1937 and later disappeared apparently without leaving a trace. He had been a salesman, and had lived here 14 years.
Then, some three or four years ago, his wife, Margaret, went into court and Clark was declared legally dead.
Traced to Niles
He died Monday in Lincoln after a heart attack. And his papers linked him to Niles. Arrangements were made to have his funeral here.
The body will arrive late Saturday, and the Rev. Harry L. Nicholson, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, will conduct the funeral at 2 Monday afternoon in the Pifer funeral home. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.
Besides the widow, now living in South Bend, Clark is survived by four brothers and a sister—Harry Clark, Bernard Clark and J.I. Clark, all of Niles; Alfred Clark, Carp Lake, Mich., and Mrs. Isabelle Chmiel, Niles.
Niles Daily Star, Friday, April 14, 1944, page 1, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library
'DEAD' FOUR YEARS, R.E. CLARK BURIED
Legally 'dead' four years, Robert Emmett Clark, who died last Monday in Lincoln, Nebr., after a heart attack, was buried in Silverbrook cemetery this afternoon.
Clark, who left Niles in 1927 and disappeared without leaving a trace, was thought to have died. Four years ago his wife, Margaret, went in to court and had him declared legally dead.
Found among his possessions in Lincoln at the time of his death Monday were papers liking him to Niles. One of the brothers was communicated with here, and the body was claimed. It arrived Saturday from Lincoln.
Funeral services were conducted in the Pifer funeral home this afternoon at 2 by the Rev. Harry L. Nicholson, rector of Trinity Episcopal church. Pallbearers were William Maunder, Harold Laberteaux, George Earl, Frank Butts, Byron Weatherby and Guy VanDusen.