Maud Christeon
1891-March 21, 1963

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, March 21, 1963, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Miss Maud Christeon, 71, a resident of Berrien County, died at 5:30 a.m. Today in the Oak grove Manor Nursing Home, where she had been a patient since Feb. 25.

Prayer services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Kiger Funeral Home. The Rev. Orlen L. Njus, pastor of the Bertrand Bible church, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends will be received at the funeral home Friday.

*Grave Search and Silverbrook listing has this as Chriteon but death record has name as Christeon.

Lydia Garner
Sept. 18, 1877-March 28, 1963

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, March 28, 1963, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Lydia Garner, 86, formerly of 1629 Cedar St., died at 6:30 a.m. today at the River Rest Nursing Home in Defiance, Ohio. She had been in ill health for some time. She was born Sept. 18, 1877.

She is survived by two sons, Ralph, Grand Rapids, and Edward, Newark, N.J., and two grandchildren.

The body will be brought to the Pifer Funeral Home, where arrangements are incomplete.

Niles Daily Star, Friday, March 29, 1963, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

SERVICES SET

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Pifer Funeral Home for Mrs. Lydia Garner, 86, who died yesterday at 6:30 a.m. in Defiance, Ohio.

She is survived by two sons and two grandchildren.

Mrs. Garner was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Order of Eastern Star.

The Rev. John P. MacLachlan, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate.

Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the Pifer Funeral Home.

Inez Goff
Feb. 27, 1892-Dec. 26, 1963

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, December 28, 1963, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Funeral services for Mrs. Inez Goff, 71, of 1816 Bertrand road, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in  the Seventh -day Adventist Church here Elder John Kroncke of South Bend will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

She died Thursday in Pawating Hospital where she had been a patient two months. She had been in ill health a year.

Mrs. Goff was born Feb. 27, 1892, in Huntington, Ind. She came to Niles from St. Joseph 20 years ago.

Survivors include her husband William; four sons, Gene Cross, San Diego, Calif., Charles Cross, Denton, Tex., Edward Cross, Cassopolis, And Albert cross, South Bend; seven daughters, Mrs. All Kanarr and Mrs. Ralph Syson, both of South Bend, Mrs. Henry Rutkowski, Granger, Ind., Mrs. Clayton Goff, Marcellus, Mrs. Francis Dennis, Benton Harbor, Mrs. William Spencer, Niles and Mrs. Frank Taylor, Mishawaka; a brother, Roy Squires, Detroit; two sisters, Mrs. Axel Nielson, South Haven, and Mrs. Lois Chapman, Bridgman; 25 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.

She was a member of the South Bend Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Friends are being received at the Pifer Funeral Home.

Mary E. Gorton
Feb. 20, 1875-March 28, 1963

Niles Daily Star, Friday, March 29, 1963, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs.  Mary E. Gorton, 88, formerly of 1222 Broadway, died at 10:50 p.m.  Thursday in a hospital in Toledo, Ohio.

She was born in Cass County, Feb. 20, 1875, and had lived in this area all her life.  Mr. Gorton died in 1930.

She is survived by her four daughters, Mrs. Charlotte Emmerson, Mishawaka; Mrs. Beatrice Stacey, Lake Side Calif.; Mrs. Beulah Casner, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Edith Almstead, Toledo, Ohio; one son, Howard G. of Milford; 10 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Lora Hicks, Kalamazoo.

Funeral Services will be held at the Pifer Funeral Home at 2 p.m .Monday, Dr. Maurice McKean, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will officiate.  Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends may call after noon at the funeral home.

Etta Edwards Graham (Bowerman)
March 18, 1863-Nov. 10, 1953

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, November 12, 1953, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Etta Edwards Graham, 90, formerly of Niles, died Wednesday at Kalamazoo. She had been ill for eight or ten years.

Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Mae Murphy, of Berrien Center, and one brother, Floyd Bowerman, of South Bend.

Sevices[sic] will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Silverbrook Cemetery.

Note: DOB from Michigan Death Records

Genevieve C. Hance (Corell)
Feb. 28, 1878-Nov. 27, 1953

Niles Daily Star, Friday, November 27, 1953, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Genevieve C. Hance, 75, of 23 North Fifth street, for 10 years curator of Fort St. Joseph Museum here, died at 10 a.m. today in Pawating Hospital following an illness of three weeks.

Mrs. Hance was born Feb. 28, 1878, in Niles, and lived here entire life here. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Fort St. Joseph Historical Association and the Seepewa Reading Club. Her husband, Thomas C. Hance, died in 1930.

Surviving are: two daughters, Mrs. Allen P. Balknap, Oak Park, Ill., and Mrs. Jack Rabe, Dearborn; two brothers, George E. Corell, Niles and Horace B. Corell, Lansing; a sister, Mrs. Frank Camron, Chicago; eight grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Kiger Funeral Home here after 7 p.m. Today. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday in the First Presbyterian Church with the pastor, the Rev. T.M. Greenhoe, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

The family has requested that flowers be omitted, and that all money be given to the Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund.