John A. Koons
April 9, 1896-June 25, 1960
Niles Daily Star, Monday, June 27, 1960, page 2, microfilm Niles District Library (Wm. Brackett)
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Pifer Funeral Home for John A. Koons, 54, who died at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Pawating Hospital, where he had been a patient since June 3. Death was caused by a heart attack.
Rites will be conducted by Dr. Maurice McKean, pastor of the Methodist Church, and burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
Mr. Koons was born in Buchanan on April 9, 1896, the son of John Thomas and Alice Miller Koons. he moved to Niles from Buchanan 23 years ago. Mr. Koons had been an employe of the Clark Equipment Co., of Buchanan, whre he originated the 20 Year Club.
Survivors are the wife, Irma; a daughter, Mrs. W.C. Welsh of Berrien Springs, and two brothers, Will Koons of Kalamazoo and Charles Koons of Buchanan.