Joseph Kraft
Nov. 17, 1889-March 7, 1956
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Wednesday, March 7, 1956, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
Joseph Kraft, 66, of rural route one, Niles, died today in Ridgewood Osteopathic Hospital at Detroit. He had been ill since September, 1955.
Kraft, a New York Central Railroad passenger train engineer, was born Nov. 17, 1889, in Hobart, Ind., and came to Niles in 1920 from Michigan City, Ind.
Surviving are his wife, Carrie; three sons, Raymond, of Niles, Howard, of Detroit, and Marvin of Union City, Mich.; a daughter, Mrs. Clara Leeman, of Naples, Fla.; nine grandchildren; four brothers, Edward Kraft of Duluth, Minn.; Martin of Wheeler, Ind.; and Theodore and Willie, both of East Gary, Ind., and three sisters, Mrs. Dean Stokes and Miss Amelia Kraft, both of East Gary, and Mrs. Laurie Riche, of Duluth, Minn.
Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home here beginning Thursday evening. Arrangements are incomplete.
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Wednesday, March 8, 1956, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
KRAFT RITES SET
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday in the Pifer Funeral Home here for Joseph Craft, 66, of rural route one, Niles, who died Wednesday following a several months illness. The Rev. Theodore Laesch, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, will officiate and burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Kraft was a member of the Sumnerville Grange and the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers.