Robert C. Marks
Sept. 19, 1904-Jan. 6, 1955
Niles Daily Star, Friday, January 7, 1955, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Robert C. Marks, 50, of 536 Broadway, Niles Public School teacher since 1929 and form high school golf coach, died at 5:15 p.m. Thursday. He suffered a heart attach at home and died enroute to Pawating Hospital.
Marks was born Sept. 19, 1904, in Harmony, Ind., and came to Niles in 1929 from Butler, Ind. When he first joined the teaching staff at Niles High School, he . . .[illegible]. .history and was assistant football coach. Later he was named head of the history department. He also taught social science, and was high school boys counsellor and counsellor for ninth grade students.
In addition to teaching, Marks was director of the summer recreation program in Niles for one season, was associated four years with the National Standard Company and was employed a short time at the Richter Insurance Agency here. He was a member of the Niles Library board and a former member of the Niles Board of Education. He was also a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Niles Elks Lodge.
He graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., in 1926 with a batchelor[sic] of arts degree,and received his masters degree form the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1932.
A year before he came to Niles, he was married (Jan. 7, 1938) to Raye Greatbatch in Indianapolis. Inc.
Surviving are: his wife; two children, Sue and Richard, both at home; two brothers, Ralph W. Marks, of Chicago, and John M. Marks, of Albany, N.Y., and a sister, Mrs. Edna Danhouer, of Chicago.
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday in the First Presbyterian Church with the pastor, the Rev. T.M. Greenhoe, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the Kiger Funeral Home.