Mabel A. Walton (Currier)
Nov. 5, 1880-Feb. 22, 1961
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Wednesday, February 22, 1961, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Mabel A. Walton, 80, 1828 River Bluff Rd., retired Buchanan Elementary School principal, died at 6 a.m. today in Pawating Hospital where she was admitted Tuesday night. She had been ill for the past week.
Mrs. Walton was born Nov. 5, 1880, in Bertrand Township and had lived her lifetime in this community. She had taught school for 20 years in the Buchanan system, retiring as grade school principal. She was a member of the Methodist Church of Buchanan and a charter member of the Bend of the River Grange.
Surviving are: her husband, Herbert; a daughter, Miss Esther Walton, Niles, and a sister, Mrs. Dorothea Daw, St. Louis, MO.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Pifer Funeral Home with Dr. Maurice McKean, pastor of the First Methodist Church here, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.
Friends are being received at the funeral home.