Dorothy Margaret (Horner) Hipshier
Apr. 27, 1888 – June 1, 1931
Niles Daily Star, June 2, 1931, page 1, microfilm Niles District Library (D. Barkman)
MRS. HIPSHIER, MOTHER OF 10 CHILDREN, DIES
Passes Away at Epworth Hospital After Lung Infection
Mrs. Dorothy Margaret Horner Hipshier, 43, wife of Cleveland Hipshier, 317 N. Seventh Street, died in Epworth hospital, South Bend last evening at 9:10. She was taken to that hospital yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock in a hope that an infection of the lungs and an illness with pneumonia with which she had been stricken 10 days previous might be arrested. For several days after she became ill she was about the house and her condition had been considered alarming only since last Thursday.
Mrs. Hipshier was the mother of 10 children of whom nine survive her, the youngest of whom is three years. Dorothy Margaret Horner was born in Niles on April 27, 1888 and had spent her entire life here. She was a daughter of Reuben and Anna Horner. Her mother died 16 years ago. Her father survives her and is critically ill in the home of his son, Clarence, having been ill since last March. She was married in Niles to Cleveland Hipshier in 1906. Her husband survives her and the following children: Mrs. Myrtle Shepardson, Mrs. Dorothea Seals, Orletta, Katherine, Fentalene, Happy, Pansy, Bettsie and Irene Lucille, all of Niles. Besides the husband, her father and children, Mrs. Hipshier is survived by the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Bidwell, Mrs. Emma Worvey, Mrs. Ruby Felhuaer and Mrs. Claudine Deditch, Clarence and Everett Horner, all of Niles and Mrs. Lucille Deditch, of Laporte Indiana.
Mrs. Hipshier was a member of the Niles lodge of Maccabees,No. 39, of the Royal Neighbors and of the Loyal Star.
The funeral services will be held on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 in the Trost and Augustine chapel. Burial will be made in Silverbrook cemetery.