Stella Lou Hammond Zell
Nov. 29 1901-Feb. 1, 1957
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Monday, February 4, 1957, page 1, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Accident Kills Former Teacher
Rites Here for Mrs. Stella Hammond Zell
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Pifer Funeral Home for Mrs. Stella Lou Hamond[sic] Zell, 55 of Pontiac, form Niles public school music teacher who was killed in a truck-car crash Friday night on M-60 east of Homer, Mich. The Rev. L. C1901George Beacock, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will officiate and burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
Mrs. Zell and another teacher, Mrs. Chrlotte[sic] Harphan, of Decatur, Mich., were killed while they were driving to Niles to spend the weekend.
The former Niles teacher was born Nov. 29, 1901, in Dowagiac and received her masters degree in music from the University of Detroit. She taught school for a number of years here before going to Pontiac in 1929 where she had taught since that time.
Surviving are her husband, John, of Pontiac, and her stepfather, George White, of Niles.
Friends may call at the funeral home.