George W. Tyson
Nov. 8, 1867-May 18, 1961
The Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Friday, May 19, 1961, page 2, col. 6
George Washington Tyson, 93, 62 Marmont St., Died at 12:55 p.m. Thursday in Pawating Hospital where he had been a patient for one day. He had been in Failing health for seven months.
Mr. Tyson, a retired installer for the Kawneer Co., where he had worked for 23 years, was born Nov. 8, 1867, in Bucks County, Pa., and came to Niles in 1920 from Trenton, N.J. He had retired from Kawneer in 1943.
Surviving are: his widow, Fern; two step-children, Maurice Shepherdson, Benton Harbor; and Mrs. Mildred Anderson, Kalamazoo; six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Josephine Jenks, Trenton, N.J.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m., Saturday in the Pifer Funeral Home with the Rev. John G. Carlton, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
Friends are being received at the funeral home.