Alwin C. Opfel
Dec. 29, 1864-June 2, 1935
Niles Daily Star, Monday, June 3, 1935, page 2, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library
FORMER RESIDENT OF NILES STRICKEN
Alwin C. Opfel, 71, Dies Sunday at Home in South Bend.
Alwin C. Opfel, former resident of Niles and for 27 years a resident of Berrien county, died Sunday night at his home in South Bend. Mr. Opfel was 71 years old.
He was born in Covert, Mich., Dec. 29, 1864. As a young man he spent three years n Fargo, S.D., returning to Michigan in 1886. In 1889 he was married to Miss Cora Palmer, of Watervliet, who survives him. The family moved to South Bend in 1923.
While in Niles, the family attended the Presbyterian church and was widely known here in church and social circles.
Surviving are Mrs. Opfel, a daughter, Myrtle, at home; two sons, Raymond C. and Roye E. of South Bend, two granddaughters, a sister, Mrs. William Baldwin, St. Louis, MO, and a brother, Burton, Cushing, Okla.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Price and Kiger funeral home and burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery. The body will be at the family home in South Bend, 522 East Ewing avenue until the day of the funeral.
Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, June 4, 1935, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
Niles News In Brief: OPFEL RITES WEDNESDAY
Funeral services for Alwin C. Opfel, 71, who died at his home in South Bend Sunday, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Price and Kiger funeral home. The Rev. H.L. Ferguson, rector of St. James Episcopal church in South Bend, will officiate. Mr. Opfel was a former resident of Niels and he and his family were members of Trinity Episcopal church during their residence here.