Thelma D. Troost
July 20, 1907-July 12, 2001
The Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Monday, July 16, 2001, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library
Thelma Cook Troost, 93, of St. Joseph Died July 12 in her home.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Fairplane Presbyterian Chruch. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles. Visitation will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Kerley & Starks Funeral Home in St. Joseph. Memorial contributions may be made to Fairplane Presbyterian Church or to the Maude Preston Palenske Memorial Library in St. Joseph.
Mrs. Troost was born on July 20, 1907, in Michigan City, Ind. She was a librarian with the St. Joseph City Public Library for 22 years. She attended Epworth Hospital Training School for Nurses in South Bend and moved to St. Joseph in 1929. She was active on the PTA for many years. Thelma worked at the St. Joseph Sanitarium during World War II. She had been president of the Lianas and also was a member of the Southwest Genealogical Society, Fort Miami Heritage, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a member of the Fairplain Presbyterian Church.
On July 20, 1927, in Niles, she married Edward Troost. He preceded her in Death on June 12, 1991. She was also preceded in death by: an infant daughter in 1931; one daughter, Barbara Troost, on April 12, 1994; and one sister, Bernice Sandel, in January 2001.
Survivors include: a son, Peter (Sidell) Troost of South Bend; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.