Kate Bacon
Nov. 13, 1870 – April 20, 1940
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, April 20, 1940, page 1, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Kate Bacon taken by death.
Mrs. Kate G. Bacon, 69, prominent in Niles club circles for a number of years, died this morning at 10:30 in Pawating hospital. Mrs. Bacon, who became ill Wednesday, was taken form her home at 16 North Fifth Street to the hospital Friday night in a diabetic coma.
She was born in Howard Township Nov. 13, 1870, and was the widow of the late Attorney, N.H. Bacon. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. S.C. Thomson and Mrs. William VanNess, both of Niles; a brother, Charles E. Gerberich, Everett, and several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Bacon was particularly interested in musical activities in the city. She was one of first members of the Niles Musical club although she had dropped her club membership in the past few years. At one time she was organist in the First Presbyterian Church.
The Christian Science church and the Seepewa club are other organizations of which she was a member.
Friends may call at the Rutherford funeral Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Niles Daily Star, Monday, April 22, 1940, page 1, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library
Rites Tuesday Afternoon at 3 for Mrs. Bacon
Funeral services for Mrs. Kate G. Bacon, who died Saturday morning in Pawating hospital after an illness of a few days, will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 3 in the Rutherford funeral home.
The service will be under auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, and will be conducted by Durlin H. Wheeler. Burial will be in Silverbook cemetery.
Mrs. Bacon, a member of the Seepewa club and a former member of the Musical club, had been prominent in club and musical activities in the city for a number of years. She was the widow of the late Attorney N.H. Bacon.
Friends may call at the funeral home.