Obituaries

Bertha W. Brodersen
May 11, 1887-Sept. 21, 1958

Niles Daily Star, Monday, September 22, 1958, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Bertha W. Brodersen, 71, of 1726 Regent Street, did at 10 p.m. Sunday in her home following an extended illness.

Mrs. Brodersen was born May 11, 1887, in Clinton, Ia., and came to Niles to make her home 45 years ago.

Surviving are: her husband, Paul F. Bodersen; a son, Henry Brodersen, of Niles; four grandchildren and four sisters, Mrs. Emma Gregersen, of Kerkhoven, Minn., Mrs. Ann Matthiesen and Mrs. Elfrieda Wiese, both of Luverne, Minn.,and Mrs. Helen Beck, of Sioux Fall, S.D.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Pifer Funeral Home with the Rev. Orien Njus, pastor of the Bertrand Bible Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Joseph C. Callahan
Feb. 19, 1891-Sept. 16, 1958

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, September 16, 1958, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

Joseph C. Callahan, of 916 North Third street, died early today in his sleep. The body was taken to the Pifer Funeral Home here where arrangements are incomplete. Friends may call at the funeral home beginning Wednesday evening.

Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, September 17, 1958, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

CALLAHAN RITES SET

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Pifer Funeral Home here for Joseph C. Callahan, 67, of 916 North Third Street, who died early Tuesday at his home. The Rev. Herbert Meussling, pastor of the United Church of Christ [Evangelical and Reformed] will officiate and burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Mr. Callahan, a carpenter and cabinet maker, was born Feb. 19, 1891, in Dubuque, Iowa, and had lived in Niles for the past four years. Surviving are two brothers, Clem Callahan, of South Bend,and John Callahan, of Berrien Springs.

Friends may call at the funeral home.

Karl S. Cribbs
Sept. 25, 1958

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, September 25, 1958, page 2, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library

Committal services were held today at Silverbrook Cemetery here for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Cribbs, of 1130 Greenfield Street,  who was still-born this morning at Pawating Hosptial.

Surviving beside the parents are: a twin sister, another brother and sister, Douglas and Nancy, both at home, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Archie A. Cribbs and Mr.and Mrs. I.J. Oilnghouse[sic], all of Niles.

Hazel C. Curtis
May 31, 1893-Sept. 20, 1958

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, September 20, 1958, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Hazel C. Curtis, 65, of 906 1/2 George Street, Niles, resident of this community for the past 41 years, died at 2 a.m. today in the Berrien County Hospital, Berrien Center, following an illness of one week.

Mrs. Curtis was born in Wisconsin on May 31, 1893, and moved here from Chicago. Surviving are her husband, Fred, Sr., three sons, Fred Curtis, Jr., of Niles, Jack Manning, of South Bend,and James Manning, of Los Angeles, Calif.; eight grandchildren; two great grandchildren, and three brothers, Barney Falkenberg, of Niles, Thomas Falkenberg, of Elkhart, Ind., and Lawrence Falkenberg, of Prescott, Ariz.

Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home, where arrangements are incomplete.

Niles Daily Star, Monday, September 22, 1958, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

CURTIS RITES SET

Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. Tuesday in the Pifer Funeral Home here for Mrs. Hazel C. Curtis, 65, of 906 1/2 George Street, who died early Saturday. The Rev. Earl Wickstrom, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will officiate and burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

May Ella Dalenberg
May 8, 1888-Sept. 1, 1958

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, September 2, 1958, page 2, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. May Ella Dalenberg, 70, of 208 Fort Street, died at 1:25 a.m. Monday in Pawating Hospital.

Surviving are her husband, Henry; a daughter, Mrs. Paul Prenkert, of Niles;  a son, Robert Howard Dalenberg, of Niles; three grandchildren, four brothers, Willard, John, Wilson, and Irving Doster, all of Kalamazoo.

Mrs. Dalenberg was born in the Kalamazoo area May 8, 1888, and came to Niles [illegible].  Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home, and services will be held there at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Elder G.M. Nerness of the Seventh-day Adventisit Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery

George Edwin Dearborn
Abt. 1846-Sept. 4, 1875

Niles Democrat, Saturday, September 11, 1875, page 3, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Death of G.E. Dearborn

Died, in this city, on Saturday last, of consumption, after a lingering and painful illness; Mr. GEORGE EDWIN DEARBORN, in the 29th year of his age.

Mr. Dearborn was born in Kensington, New Hampshire, and subsequently removed with his family to New York City. When 16 years of age he responded to his country's call and joined the thousands who went forth to battle beneath the stars and strips. Since the war he has been engaged in various enterprises, being at one time connected with one of the prominent Eastern Insurance Companys. While residing in Brooklyn, he had a severe attack of pneumonia, that nearly proved fatal, and from the effects of which he probably never fully recovered. Finding his health impaired, and expecting to derive benefit from adopting a more active life, he made an engagement with a music establishment in Baltimore, for which he travelled until compelled to give up in consequence of declining health and strength.

Some five years since, Mr. Dearborn became acquainted with and married Miss Emma Auld, a daughter of Mrs. H.N. Sterling, of thiscity, who was then visiting in Brooklyn. After being compelled to relinquish his business engagements, Mr. Dearborn came to this city, where he remained until his death. He had travelled extensively and acquired a large and varied experience. Being  possessed of rare conversational powers, a genial and social desposition[sic] and prompted by generous impulses, he had during his brief sojourn among us of a few months, formed many sincere attachments.  His friends noticed with anxious solicitude the daily wasting of his once fine, manly form, and the weak step, growing weaker, as he passed in and out among us and when at last disease had laid him prostrate, still he was cheerful and hopeful, and held on firmly to the belief that would recover, until within a few hours before the drop curtain fell, which shut out the world from his sight.  If faults he had, we were ignorant of them, and his friends will only cherish those qualities of head and heart which endeared him to them.--a kind fther arrived in time to assist Mrs. Dearborn and other friends in their last offices of love, and his presence contributed much to sooth the last few hours of his life. His wife has the sincere sympathy of the community in her bereavement.