Della L. Blackburn
March 23, 1887-June 25, 1962
Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, June 26, 1962, page 2, col. (microfilm Niles District Library)
Miss Della L. Blackburn, 75, of 218 Parkway, died at 1:50 p.m. Monday in the Berrien County Hospital where she had been patient for one week. She had been in failing health for one year.
Miss Blackburn was born March 23, 1887, in Coffee County, Tenn., and came to Niles in 1917.
Surviving are: three sisters, Mrs. Rose McLaughlin and Mrs. Minnie Bonner, both Niles, and Mrs. Cora Bennett, Cooksville, Tenn., and a brother, Herman Blackburn, Niles.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Pifer Funeral Home with Theordore Starkey of the Cxhurch of Christ officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.