Patricia VanDecar Gillette Kephart
Sept. 4, 1925-Jan. 7, 1993
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, January 9, 1993, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library (Wm. Brackett)
Patricia VanDecar Gillette Kephart, 66, of Jones Road, Berrien Springs, passed away at 2:48 p.m Thursday at Memorial Hospital in South bend, Ind.
Funeral services are Monday at 11 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, Niles, of which she was a member.
Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the McLauchlin-Hoge Funeral Home in Berrien Springs.
Memorial contribuitons may be made to the Berrien County Historical Society or the First Presbyterian Church of Niles.
Mrs. Kephart was born Sept. 4, 1926, in Berrien Springs and was a lifelong resident. She was the owner of Hardscrabble Publishing in Berrien Springs and was the former owner of the Journal Era from 1979 to 1985. She was a board member of the Berrien County Historical Society and had served on the Berrien Township Board of Appeals and the Berrien County Department of Public works.
Sh was preceded in death by her first husband, John W. Gillette, in 1983.
Survivors include her husband, George Kephart, whom she married Oct. 3, 1992, in Berrien Spirngs; a son, Stuart Gillette of Elmhurst, Ill.; a step-daughter, Kathryn Wisdon of Amarillo, Texas; two step-sons, Todd Gillette of Three Oaks and Robert Gillette of Gaithersburg, Maryland; six grandchildren; and one brother, Phillip VanDecar of Royal Oak.