Jasper Parker
Feb. 16, 1851-July 23, 1934
Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, July 24, 1934, page 1, col. 7, microfilm Niles District Library
Jasper Parker Dies at River Bluff Home
Jasper Parker, 83, Niles River Bluff district, died at his home at 5 o'clock Monday night after a six -year's illness with paralysis.
Mr. Parker is well known in this vicinity, having lived here practically all his life. He was born February 15, 1851, in Cass county. He was married twice and his divorced wife, Miss Effie Slee, died in 1930. In 1902 he was married to Mrs. Jessie Schrumpf who survives him.
He is also survived by three daughters Mrs. Claude Westfall, Mrs. Hollie Binkley and Mrs. James Chapman, all of Niles; four sons, Archie, Jasper, Leon and Edward, Niles, and Frank, Kalamazoo; one step-daughter, Mrs. Charles Cooper, Elkhart; two step-sons, Walter Schrumpf, Niles, and Nelson Schrumpf, Elkhart.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning at the Rutherford funeral home with William Putnam pastor of the South Niles Community church officiating. Burial will be made in Silverbrook cemetery.
Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, July 25, 1934, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
PARKER RITES HELD
Through an error in funeral records, the report was erroneously given that the first wife of Jasper Parker, who died at his home in the Niles River Bluff district at 5 o'clock Monday, had died in 1930, Mrs. Effie Parker, however, died in 1900.
Funeral rites were held at 10:30 o'clock this morning in the Rutherford funeral home with William Putnam, pastor of the South Niles Community church, officiating. Burial was in Silverbrook cemetery.