Laura Kay Gallup
July 17, 1952-July 17, 1952

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, July17; page 2, col 6, microfilm, Niles District Library

Daughter is Still-born

A daughter, Laura Kay, was stillborn to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gallup, of 1323 Wayne street early this morning at Pawating hospital.

Surviving besides the parents are paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Gallup, of Phoenix, Ariz., and a sister, Diane, at home.

Committal services were held at 1:30p.m. today at the Pifer funeral home, and burial was in Silverbook cemetery.  The Rev. T.M. Greenhoe, Presbyterian pastor, officiated.

Mary Hayes
Apr. 1, 1855-Feb. 4, 1936

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, February 4, 1936, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Niles News In Brief:  FORMER RESIDENT DIES

Word was received here this morning of the death of Mrs. Mary Hayes, Vandalia, who is the mother of Harley Hayes.  Mrs. Hayes had lived for 30 years near the electric light plant where her husband was electrician. Ten years ago they moved to Vandalia where she died this morning following a two days' illness with pneumonia. Mrs. Hayes was born April 3, 1858, in Fort Wayne, Ind., and moved to this vicinity about 40 years ago. Mrs. Fred Scotten, a daughter, and five grandchildren survive beside Mr. Hayes. The body will be at the Rutherford funeral home.  Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, February 5, 1936, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Niles News In Brief;  HAYES FUNERAL FRIDAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Hayes, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Scotten, Vandalia, will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Rutherford-Phillips mortuary, with the Rev. T.O. Lee, of the First Methodist Episcopal church, officiating.  Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.  Friends may call at the funeral home.

Niles Daily Star, Friday, February 7, 1936, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Niles News In Brief:  HAYES RITES TODAY

Funeral services for  Mrs. Mary Hayes, former resident of Niles who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Scotten in Vandalia, were conducted this afternoon in the Rutherford-Phillips mortuary, the Rev. T.O. Lee officiating.  The pallbearers were Lee Mahoney, Burgette Weller, Frank Teske, Fred Franz, Oscar Wyant and Bert Fisher.  Burial was in Silverbrook cemetery.

Mary Louise Knott  
1871-Jan. 3, 1936

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, January 4, 1936, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

Niles News In Brief:  KNOTT SERVICE SUNDAY

Friends of the Charles F. Knott family are asked to call at the Price and Kiger funeral home before 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, the hour of the funeral services for Mrs. Knott, who died in Pinecrest sanitarium Friday morning. The Rev. Theo Eisen will officiate and burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.

Niles Daily Star, Monday, January 6, 1936, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

Niles News In Brief:  HOLD KNOTT SERVICE

The Rev. Theo Eisen officiated Sunday at services for Mrs. Charles F. Knott, who died Friday morning in the Pinecrest sanitarium near Kalamazoo.  The service was held in the Price and Kiger funeral home and burial was in Silverbrook cemetery.

Note:  Name and dob from Michigan Deaths

Roy C. Lyttle
June 20, 1882-July 5, 1952

Niles Daily Star, Monday, July 7, 1952; page 2, col 5, microfilm, Niles District Library (From K. Alton)

Buchanan. July 7 – Roy C. Lyttle, 70, of rural route one, died Saturday in Pawating hospital, Niles, after a three-year illness.

He was born June 20, 1882, in Ferrysburg, and came here 24years ago from Chicago. His wife, Alice, died in 1941.   Lyttle was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran church of Niles.

Surviving are a son, Richard, of Buchanan; two daughters, Mrs. Fred Young, of Berrien Center, and Mrs. James Gill, of Chicago; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Kiger funeral home, Niles, until services at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Niles Lutheran church, with the Rev. Theo Laesch officiating.  Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery at Niles.

Donna Katherine Pfifer
June 26, 1952-June 26, 1952

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, June 26, 1952; page 2, col. 5, microfilm, Niles District Library (From K. Alton)

A girl was stillborn to Mr. and Mrs. William Pfifer, of 829 North Twelfth street, at 5 a.m. today in Pawating hospital.

Committal services were held this afternoon at Silverbrook cemetery with the Rev. T.M. Greenhoe officiating.  Arrangements were made through the Kiger funeral home.

A brother, William Pfifer, Jr. also survives.

William Carl Rogge
Nov. 2, 1864-Jan. 24, 1936

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, January 25, 1936, page 1, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

CARL ROGGE DIES OF HEART DISEASE

Retired Railroad Worker Had Resided here 51 Years; Funeral Monday

William Carl Rogge, who had lived in Niles for 51 years and was a retired employe of the Michigan Central railroad died Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Pawating hospital.  Mr. Rogge had been ill for the last two years of a heart ailment. His condition became serious Dec. 20. H was 71 years old, and his late residence was at 401 Day street.

He leaves three children, George C. Rogge, Gary, Ind.; Mrs. Milo Loomis, Niles and Mrs. Albert Wright, Hammond, Ind., also seven grandchildren. Three brothers and a sister live in Wisconsin, Otto and Ernest, in Appleton, Edward in Marionette, and Mrs. Louis Ahrens, in Clintonville.

Mr. Rogge was born in Germany, Nov. 2, 1864. He came to the United States when he was six years old and to Niles when he was 20. He worked for the Michigan Central railroad as car repairer until his retirement. He held a membership in the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen until his death.

He was married in Niles to Miss Ernestina Reum, who died Oct. 1, 1926. Later he was married to Mrs. Adeline Baker, who died a year ago.

The body was taken to the Rutherford-Phillips mortuary, where funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2;30 o'clock, the Rev. Theo Eisen officiating.  Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.

Niles Daily Star, Monday, January 27, 1936, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Niles News In Brief:  ROGGE RITES TODAY

Funeral services were conducted this afternon[sic] at 2:30 o'clock in the Rutherford-Phillips mortuary for William Carl Rogge, retired Michigan Central employe, who died Friday night. Pallbearers were O.M. Worvey, Edward Wesselhoft, George Knott, George Asmus, Charles Hahn and Charles Alm.