James H. Bays Sr.
March 13, 1905-Feb. 23, 1988

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., Michigan), Wednesday, February 24, 1988, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

James H. Bays Sr., 82, 2210 Bertrand Road, Niles, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 8:41 at Pawating Hospital.

He was born March 13, 1905 in Michigan City, Inc. and lived in this area since 1924. He married the former Ellen Kromiller Dec. 6, 1924 in Michigan City. She survives.

He was a retired employee of Studebaker Corp. and a former member of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Survivors include three sons, James Jr., David and Jacob of Niles; a sister, Dorothy Carle of Niles; a brother, Henry Bays of Crown Point, Ind.; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

A son, Donald, died in 1948.

Services are Friday at 11 a.m. At the Halbritter Funeral Home in Niles, with the Rev. Donald Wieber of St. Mark Catholic Church will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles.

Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Susa Conrad
June 11, 1880-Dec. 16, 1922

Niles Daily Star-Sun (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Saturday, December 23, 1922, page 5, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Body of Mrs. Conrad Brought to Niles

The body of Mrs. Gordon Conrad who died in Pontiac last Saturday morning was brought to Niles last evening and placed in the vault at Silver Brook cemetery. The committal services will be delayed pending the arrival of relatives from Walkerville, Ca., where Mrs. Conrad's mother is critically ill, little hope being held for her recovery, and a sister and brother of Mrs. Conrad are unable to leave her bedside. Mrs. Conrad's death followed two years of illness with cancer. She is survived by her husband, one son, Everett, aged 14 years, who with Mr. Conrad's mother, Mrs. S.A. Conrad of West Niles, came to Niles with the body.

Mr. Conrad now plans to remain in Niles permanently.

Ruth C. Cook
Sept. 8, 1909-Dec. 6, 1989

The Herald-Palladium (Saint Joseph, Michigan), 07 December 1989, Thursday, page 17, submitted by family member   

NILES - Ruth C. Cook, 80, 1615 North Fifth St., Niles, died Wednesday at Thurston Woods Village, Sturgis, following a brief illness.
    The funeral will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Halbritter Funeral Home, Niles, where friends may call Friday from 2 to 4 p.m and 7 to 9 p.m., and where a rosary will be said Friday at 7:30 p.m. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles.
    Mrs. Cook was born Sept. 8, 1909, in Chicago. She moved to Niles in 1943 coming from Chicago.  She was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church, Niles; former state and national president of Mothers of World War II; member of Ladies of G.A.R. and Daughters of America.
    Survivors include:  a daughter, Ruth Ann McDonald of Indianapolis, Ind.; two sons - Robert of Salt Lake City, Utah and John of Sturgis; 20 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and three sisters - Carolyn Baldwin of Irvine, Calif., Gwendolyn McDade of Los Angeles, Calif. and Betty Lou Barry of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
    She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred, in 1966; and a daughter,
Josephine Clark, March of 1989.

Richard Lee Grice
April 26, 1961-April 27, 1961

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Friday, April 28, 1961, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

INFANT DIES

Committal services were to be held at 4 p.m. today at Silverbrook Cemetery for Richard Lee Grice, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Grice, Jr., 2245 Reum Road, who died Thursday morning in Memorial Hospital, South Bend. The Rev. Gordon Everett, pastor of the First Evangelical United Brethren Church, was to have officiated.

Surviving besides the parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Grice Sr., Niles, and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Moore, Bertrand Township.

The infant was born Wednesday in Memorial Hospital.

Jeannette C. Hines
April 19, 1900-Jan. 17, 1973

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Friday, January 19, 1973, page 2, col. 1-2, microfilm Niles District Library

NILES―Mrs. Jeannette C. Hines, 72, of 3035 Adams Rd., died at 10 :30 p.m. Wednesday in Pawating Hospital after an extended illness.

Born April 19, 1900, in Fairfield, Mich., Mrs. Hines had lived here since 1945, coming from Decatur. Her husband, Willard, survives.

Mrs. Hines was a member of the Bahai Faith of Niles.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Pifer Funeral Home, with Bernard Streets of the Bahi[sic] Faith officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Melinda (Geideman) Keller
June 14, 1874-April 23, 1961

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), April 24, 1961, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Melinda Keller, 86, 612 N. 4th St., died at 4:15 p.m. Sunday in the Steinbarger Nursing Home here following an illness of six weeks.

Mrs. Keller was born June 14, 1874, in Niles and had lived her entire lifetime in this community. Her husband John B Keller preceded her in death on July 21, 1957.

Surviving are: three brothers, Henry, Rudolph and George Geideman, all of Niles.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Kiger and Halbritter Funeral Home with the Rev. Richard J. Fraser, pastor of United Church of Christ (Evangelical and Reformed), of which she had been a member, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends are being received at the funeral home.