Jesse Herman
Dec. 17, 1875-May 5, 1930
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Monday, May 5, 1930, page 1, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library
OVERCOME WHILE AT WORK, JESS HERMAN DIES IN FEW MINUTES
Father of Three Small Children is Stricken in Heart Attack
Jess Herman, 45, father of three small children, died suddenly with a heart attack shortly before noon today while employed with three other laborers in making repairs to the concrete driveway of the Standard Oil filling station at Third street and Broadway.
Herman, who resided in an upper apartment at 104 ½ E. Main street, had complained of not feeling well when he went to work with William and Frank Susan and George Whalen. About 11:40 he suddenly collapsed while sawing a board. Assisted to his feet by William Susan, he walked unassisted across Third street to Susan's parked car and was standing talking to Susan about going home for the day when he toppled to the ground unconscious.
A Niles physician was hastily summoned.. He arrived in less than five minutes to find Herman beyond help.
The body was removed to the Rutherford Funeral Home. Besides the widow, Mrs. Athen Herman, the deceased is survived by his three children, Marie, Franklin and Kugler.
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Wednesday, May 7, 1930, page 4, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library
Niles News in Brief: FUNERAL JESSE HERMAN
Funeral services for Jesse Herman, 55, who dropped dead at Third and Broadway Monday morning, will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the Rutherford chapel. The Rev. Sumner Young, pastor of the Evangelical church will officiate. Burial will be made in Silver Brook cemetery. In connection with an account [of the] death it was stated that three small children survived him. This was in error as his children, two sons and a daughter are grown to manhood and womanhood. They are Ann of Akron, Ohio, Ernest of Logansport, Ind., and Murray of Chicago. Marie Vandyke of Niles is a stepdaughter. A widow also survives and the following sisters and brother, Mrs. Mary Sparks, Lafayette, Ind., Mrs. Clifford Boose, Niles and Ernest Herman of Chicago.