Matilda A. Earl
Jan 22, 1857-April 19, 1945
Niles Daily Star, Friday, April 20, 1945, page 2, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library
Woman, Long an Invalid, Dies
Mrs. Matilda A. Earl, 88, of 742 Broadway, died at 3 p.m. Thursday, in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bess Augustine, 406 Grant street, where she had spent the winter. An invalid for 13 years, Mrs. Earl had been seriously ill for three weeks.
She was born near Plainfield, Ill., on Jan. 22, 1857 and was married to Benjamin F. Earl in LaGrange, Cass county in 1875. They came to Niles 65 years ago and lived where the Kiger funeral home now stands until 1889 when they built their present home. Earl died in 1912.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Elva Williams, Mrs. Dorothy Smith and Mrs. Augustine, all of Niles; five sons, George W. and John R. Earl, Niles; Bruce F. Earl, South Bend, Theodore R. Earl, St. Joseph, and William A. Earl, Washington, D.C.; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren . . .[illegible] . . . Des Moines, Ia.
Friends may call at the family home on Broadway. Funeral services will be conducted in the Kiger funeral home at 2 :30 p.m. Monday by the Rev. L. George Beacock, pastor of the First Methodist church which Mrs. Earl attended. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Earl and Mrs. Louise Mayes were expected to arrive from Washington, D.C., today.