Grace S. Pierce
Dec. 2, 1878-Sept. 27, 1952
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, September 27, 1952; page 2, col. 1, microfilm, Niles Daily Star (from K. Alton)
Mrs. Grace S. Pierce, 124 North Thirteenth street, long active her as a member of the First Presbyterian Church, died at 8:12 a.m. today at Pawating Hospital, after an illness of three months.
Surviving are her husband, Robert C. Pierce; two daughters, Mrs. Wayne Markley, Detroit, and Mrs. Richard C. Williams, Niles; one son, Alderman Charles S. Pierce, Niles, and five grandchildren, also surviving is a sister, Mrs. Henry Barlow, Hudson, O.
Mrs. Pierce was born on Dec. 2, 1878, at Tallmadge, O., and came here from Belleville, N.J., in 1926. She was married to her surviving husband on July 11, 1906, in Tallmadge, O.
She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and was first president of the Presbyterian Woman’s Association, and was active in the Monday Reading Club, the Niles Club of Home Gardens, and the Fort St. Joseph Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution.
Friends may call at the Kiger Funeral Home, Services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Monday by the Rev. T. M. Greenhoe at the First Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.