Obituaries

Donald O. Culp
Dec. 29, 1892-Jan. 21, 1962

Niles Daily Star, Monday, January 22, 1962, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Donald O. Culp, 69, of 224 N. 5th St., died at 8:15 a.m. Sunday in his home following a year of failing health.

Mr. Culp was born Dec. 29, 1892, in Van Wert, Ohio, and came to Niles in 1935 from Jackson. He had served for some time as pastor of Friends Church on Clark Street here.

Surviving are: his widow, Gladys; two sons, John Culp, 314 N. 16th St., and Harold Culp, 1420 Hickory St., and six grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Friends Church with the Rev. J. Edwin Newby of Kokomo, Ind., officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends are being received at the Pifer Funeral Home.

Rory Leigh Pollock
Jan. 22, 1962-Jan. 23, 1962

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, January 23, 1962, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

Rory Leigh Pollack[sic], infant daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Earl Pollock, 1010 Bailey Ave., died at 1:15 a.m. today in Pawating Hospital where she had been born at 11:24 a.m. Monday.

Surviving besides the parents are: two sisters and two brothers, Valory, Joni, Guy and Brent, all at home, and the grandparents, Mr.and Mrs. Dewey Pollock, 914 N. 4th St., and John H. Riley, Mishawaka, Ind.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Pifer Funeral Home with the Rev.John P. MacLachlan, pastor of First Presbyterian Church officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, January 24, 1962, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

PRIVATE SERVICES

Funeral services for infant Rory Leigh Pollock, who died at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday in Pawating Hospital, will be private Thursday and burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Grace E. Hamel
June 26, 1919-Jan. 27, 1962

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, January 27, 1962, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Grace E. Hamel, 42, of 2632 Lake Shore Drive, died at 4:55 a.m. today in Pawating Hospital where she had been a patient since last Sunday.

Mrs. Hamel was born June 26, 1919, in Gould City and came to Niles in 1939.

Surviving are: her husband, Roger; two daughters, Miss Grace Hamel, South Bend, and Mrs. Mary Louise Heskett, 2632 Lake Shore Drive; her mother, Mrs. Gertrude Schroeder, Two Dott, Mont.,and a brother Harry Rosebush, 2419 Dick St.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Pifer Funeral Home wiih the Rev. John Marvin, minister of education of First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon on Sunday.

Rosalie C. Allen
Nov. 29, 1916-Jan. 28, 1962

Niles Daily Star, Monday, January 29, 1962, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Rosalie C. Allen, 45, of 603 Monroe St., died at 11:40 p.m. Sunday in Pawating Hospital where she had been a patient for two days. She had been ill for more than two years.

Mrs. Allen was born Nov. 29, 1916, in Granger, Ind., and came to Niles in 1939 from Mishawaka, Ind.

Surviving are: her husband, Harold D.; three sons, Robert B. Allen, 1326 Fairfield Ave., M-Sgt. Norman E. Allen, with the Army in Germany, and Terence N. Allen, with the United States Navy at Memphis, Tenn.; nine grandchildren, and four brothers, Edward Claeys, Breman, Ind., Henry Claeys, Mishawaka, Ind., Dr. Robert Claeys, Wilmington, Ohio, and Richard Claeys, San Jose, calif.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.,. Wednesday in the Pifer Funeral Home with the Dr. Maurice McKean, pastor of First Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

Jewel Lewis
January 26, 1962

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, January 30, 1962, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

COMMITTAL RITES HELD

Committal services were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Silverbrook Cemetery for Jewel Lewis, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Harold R. Lewis of Augusta, who was stillborn Friday in Bronson Hospital, Kalamazoo.

Other survivors include paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Lewis, Niles, and maternal grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. George Rogers, Ovid, Mich., and formerly of Sumnerville.

Mortz Nils Andrewsen
Feb. 24, 1911-Feb. 21, 1963

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, February 21, 1963, page 1, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Nilesite Dies After Shoveling

M.N. Andrewsen Succumbs During Night

Niles police said snow shoveling apparently was a contributing factor in the death early today of Mortz Niles Andrewsen, 51, of 1020 N. 16th St.

Andrewsen, a retired Navy commander, was pronounced dead on arrival at Pawating Hospital at 1:20 a.m. His death was apparently due to a heart attack, police said.

MEANWHILE, a new cold wave is expected to send temperatures to 10 degrees below zero here tonight. Frequent snow flurries accompanied by strong northwest winds are forecast. Hazardous driving conditions will prevail with blowing and drifting snow and poor visibility.

Yesterday's snow storm dumped 7 inches of new snow on Niles.

Slippery roads and poor visability[sic] were blamed for 10 traffic accidents in this area yesterday, including four personal injury accidents which injured seven persons.

MRS. ANDREWSEN said her husband had complained of chest pain, after he had shoveled snow from his driveway about 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Police said he had a heart condition and received treatment last August at Great Lakes, Ill., Naval Hospital.

At 12:55 a.m. today, police were summoned to the Andrewsen home when Mrs. Andrewsen reported her husband had slumped over in a chair.  Patrolman Lee Spencer gave artificial respiration to the stricken man until an ambulance arrived.  Andrewsen was pronounced dead on his arrival at the hospital by Dr. John Strayer.

A salesman for Cutting Tool Inc., South Bend, Andrewsen came to Niles from Elkhart in 1960. He was born Feb. 24, 1911, in Elkhart.

Surviving, in addition to the widow, are two daughters, Diane McConnell, in nurse's training at Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, and Barbara McConnell, at home; and a sister, Mrs. Helen Schaff, Los Angeles, Calif.

Funeral arrangements are being completed by the Kiger Funeral Home, where friends are being received.

Niles Daily Star, Friday, February 22, 1963, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Funeral services for Mortz Nils Andrewsen, 51, of 1020 N. 16th St., who died of an apparent heart attack after shoveling snow Thursday, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Kiger Funeral Home.  The Rev. John G. Carlson . . Episcopal Church will officiate. Full military graveside rites will follow in Silverbrook Cemetery.