Roger Stanley Hawke
Oct. 2, 1947-Dec. 22, 1947

Niles Daily Star, Monday, December 22, 1947, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

HAWKE INFANT DIES

Roger Stanley Hawke, 2 1/2 month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Stanley Hawke, 1119 Marion street, died at 10:10 a.m. today at Pawating hospital, The child was born Oct. 2, 1947.

Friends may call at the Pifer funeral home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, December 23, 1947, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

RITES SET FOR INFANT

Funeral services for Roger Stanley Hawke, 2 1/2-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Stanley Hawke, 1110 Marion street, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Pifer funeral home. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.

The child died at 10:10 a.m. yesterday at Pawating hospital.

Besides the parents, two grandparents survive. They are Mr. and Mrs. Barney Melson, Niles, and Mrs. and Mrs. O.D. Swartz, Elkhart, Ind.

FLOYD E. DAVIS
Sept. 27, 1901-Jan. 3, 1948

Niles Daily Star, Monday, January 5, 1948, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Funeral services for Floyd E. Davis, 46, of 725 Platt street, who died Saturday night at Pawating hospital after an illness of four years, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Pifer funeral home.

The Rev. George Steeby, pastor of the First Evangelical United Brethren church, will conduct services. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.

Born on Sept. 27, 1901, in Parkville, Mr. Davis came to Niles 24 years ago from Three Rivers. In 1923 he married Alice Reid, who survives, at Centerville. He was employed by the Kawneer company, and had been a member of the Bend of the River Conservation club.

Besides his widow he leaves a daughter, Mrs. Vivian Ostrander, Niles; three sisters, Mrs. Rollie Babbitt, Elkhart, Ind., Mrs. Ray Spear, Three Rivers, Mrs. David Deal, Chicago; five brothers, Melvin, Three Rivers, Charles, Cassopolis, Henry, Pasadena, Cal., William and Delbert, both of Niles; and a grandson.

Niles Daily Star, Monday, January 5, 1948, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Funeral services for Floyd E. Davis, 46, of 725 Platt street, who died Saturday night at Pawating hospital after an illness of four years, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Pifer funeral home.

The Rev. George Steeby, pastor of the First Evangelical United Brethren church, will conduct services. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.

Born on Sept. 27, 1901, in Parkville, Mr. Davis came to Niles 24 years ago from Three Rivers. In 1923 he married Alice Reid, who survives, at Centerville. He was employed by the Kawneer company, and had been a member of the Bend of the River Conservation club.

Besides his widow he leaves a daughter, Mrs. Vivian Ostrander, Niles; three sisters, Mrs. Rollie Babbitt, Elkhart, Ind., Mrs. Ray Spear, Three Rivers, Mrs. David Deal, Chicago; five brothers, Melvin, Three Rivers, Charles, Cassopolis, Henry, Pasadena, Cal., William and Delbert, both of Niles; and a grandson.

Rudolf LaVerne Gillette
Oct. 7, -1947Dec. 26, 1947

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, December 27, 1947, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

RITES FOR INFANT SON

Rudolf LaVerne Gillette, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gillette, 616 North Eighth street, died at 11:30 p.m. Friday in Pawating hospital.

The deceased child, who was born on Oct. 7, 1947, has been ill since birth. He is survived by his parents, and grandparents, Mrs. Wilma Gillette, Niles,and Mr. and Mrs. Grover Craig, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Monday in the Kiger Funeral home, where friends may call. Elder C.M. Figg, Seventh Day Adventist church pastor, will conduct services. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.

Richard James Grafe
Jan. 13, 1948-Jan. 14, 1948

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, January 15, 1948, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

GRAFE INFANT DIES

Richard James Grafe, day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Grafe, rural route three, died Wednesday afternoon in Pawating hospital. The infant was born Tuesday.

Private funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the Pifer funeral home. The Rev. a.A. Klien, pastor of the Berrien Springs Lutheran church, will conduct the service. Place of burial has not been set.

Eliza S. Lickfelt
Nov. 12, 1862-Jan. 14, 1948

Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, January 14, 1948, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Eliza S. Lickfelt, 85, died at 8 a.m. today in her home, 1121 North Sixth street, where she had been ill since Tuesday.

Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at the Pifer funeral home with the Rev. L. George Beacock, First Methodist pastor, officiating. Interment will be in Silverbrook cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Surviving are her husband, Fred; three step-daughters, Mrs. Ray Carpenter and Mrs. Wilson Carpenter, both of Niles, and Mrs. Mary Pammel, Ann Arbor; and eight grandchildren.

Mrs. Lickfelt was born in Galien township Nov. 12, 1862, and has been a resident of Niles 50 years.

Franklyn Marsden Pierson
Nov. 10, 1862-Jan. 9, 1948

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, January 10, 1948, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Franklyn Marsden Pierson, 224 North Fourth street, passed away at 4:25 p.m. on Jan. 9 in Pawating hospital, after an illness of one week.

Pierson, who was born Nov. 10, 1862, in Batavia, N.Y., had lived here since childhood, and leaves survivng him his widow, Jessica Wickham Pierson. For the past several years, he had been retired from his duties as general salesman for the state of Michigan for Carson, Pirie, Scott and company, Chicago.

Friends may call at the Kiger funeral home. Services will be conducted by Thomas Garvin, reader of Church of Christ, Scientist, at 2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.