Miss Gertrude Evick
Oct. 1883-April 13, 1953

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, April 14, 1953, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Miss Gertrude Evick, age unknown, of Niles, died Monday afternoon in Kalamazoo.

She is survived by several nieces and nephews.

Private funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. at the Kiger Funeral Home with the Rev. T.M. Greenhoe, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Note: Per death record, Daughter of William Evick and Catherine Dean; dob from 1900 census record.

Anna Weaver Fehmling
Dec. 1861-April, 29, 1953

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, April 30, 1953, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Anna Weaver Fehmling, 91, former Niles resident, died Tuesday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Marvin Loudenslager, in Elkhart, Ind. Mrs. Fehmling was born in December, 1861, in Germany and is survived by her daughter, six grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the White Funeral Home at Elkhart. Burial  and graveside rites will be at Silverbrook Cemetery here.

Frank G. Kaiser
June 3, 1897-April 9, 1953

Niles Daily Star, Friday, April 10, 1953, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Frank G. Kaiser, 55, of rural route threee, Niles, was dead on admittance to Pawating Hospital following an attack in the downtown district Thursday afternoon.

Kaiser was born June 3, 1897, in South Bend. He was a New York Central yard conductor for 33 years and had spent the last five years farming. He lived in the South Bend-Niles area all his life.

Surviving, along with his widow, Emma, are: four daughters, Mrs. Edna Reid, Mrs. Alice Rinehart, Mrs. Cora Wolford and Mrs. Martha Miller, all of Niles; one step-son, Alfred Chamberlain, rural route three, Niles, and four grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Kiger Funeral Home, where funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2:30 p.m. with the Rev. Herbert Meussling, pastor of St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Church, officating.[sic] Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, April 11, 1953, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

CORRECTION

Four survivors of Frank G. Kaiser, Niles, who died Thursday afternoon were incorrectly identified as his daughters in the obituary in Friday's Daily Star. The women, Mrs. Edna Reid, Mrs. Alice Rinehart, Mrs. Cora Wolford and Mrs. Martha Miller, all of Niles, are sisters of the dead man.

George Kimmick
May 16, 1885-April. 27, 1953

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, April 28, 1953, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

George Kimmick, 67, formerly of Niles and brother of Florence and [illegible] Kimmick of Niles, died Monday at Kalamazoo, Mich.

He was born in Niles on May 16, 1865.

Also surviving is another sister, Mrs. L.D. Robbins, Boise, Ida.

Funeral services will be held at the Kiger Funeral Home Wednesday at 4 p.m. with  the Rev. Herbert Meussling, pastor of the St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Church officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Alma Ann Rieske
March 19, 1905-April 26, 1953

Niles Daily Star, Monday, April 27, 1953, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

Miss Alma Ann Rieske, 1405 North Fifth Street, died at 11 a.m. Sunday in St. Joseph Hospital, South Bend. She had been in poor health for eight years.

Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Martha Ausmus, Niles. Miss Rieske, a surgical nurse, was born on March 19, 1905, in Germany, and came here from California five years ago.

Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home, where services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday by the Rev. T.M. Greenhoe, Presbyterian pastor. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Edward M. Brohman
May 23, 1879-March 29, 1952

Niles Daily Star, Monday, March 31, 1952, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

BERRIEN SPRINGS, March 31--Edward H. Brohman, 72, of Long Lake community, south of Berrien Springs, died Saturday night in Tampa, Fla. He had been ill about a year with a heart ailment.

Brohman was born May 23, 1879 in Richmond, Ind., and came to Berrien Springs in 1904. His wife [died in 1945].

He is survived by three sons, Paul, of Long Lake community, Lester, of Mt. Tabor, and Leonard, of South Bend; one daughter, Mrs. Jack Tusing, also of South Bend; one brother, Frederick Brohman, of Richmond, Ind., and eight grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the McLauchlin funeral home with the Rev. Roger Stressman, pastor of the Arden Evangelical United Brethren church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery in Niles.