Harry J. Bernard
March 14, 1880-Oct. 22, 1956

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, October 23, 1956, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

Harry J. Bernard, of 122 South Fifth Street, veteran Berrien County druggist, died at 8 p.m. Monday in Pawating Hospital following an illness of one day.

Bernard was born in Chicago and at the age of 14 moved to Berrien County where he started his career in a Benton Harbor drug store.  He owned and operated his own drug store in Berrien Springs for a number of years before moving to Niles where he remodeled the old State Bank  building. He also owned and operated here a drug store in the former Forler Hotel building and the Ready Theatre Building until 1942. Prior to his death he worked as a druggist in South Bend.

Surviving are : his wife, Blanche; a son, Robert Bernard, of St. Joseph, and two grandsons.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Kiger-Halbritter Funeral Home here with the Rev. Chester Wetzel, assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. The casket will remain closed.

John Francis
Aug. 16, 1864-Oct. 28, 1956

Niles Daily Star, Monday, October 29, 1956, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

John Francis, 92, of 114 North 10th Street, died Sunday at 10:30 a.m. in the home of Mr.and Mrs. Walter J. Miller, 1219 Barron Lake Road, where he had recently made his home.

Francis, a retired meat-cutter, was born Aug. 16, 1864, in Niles and had lived here all his life. He was a charter member of the Modern Woodmen of the World. Surviving are: a daughter, Mrs. Fred Babcock, of Niles, and niece, Miss Jane Calkins, also Niles.

Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Pifer Funeral Home with the Rev. John G. Carlton, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.  Friends may call at the funeral home

Ida Griffith
April 18, 1871-Oct. 28, 1956

Niles Daily Star, Monday, October 29, 1956, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

[Ida Griffith . .] native of Niles, died at 9 p.m. Sunday in the Berrien County Hospital, Berrien Center.  She had been in poor health for a number of years.

Mrs. Griffith was born in Niles April 18, 1871, and for a number of years lived in California before returning here about 15 years ago. She is survived by a niece, Mrs. Jack F. Young, of Niles.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Trinity Episcopal Church, where she was a member, with the Rev. John G. Carlton, rector, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home.

Note: First line of obit is illegible on microfilm

Anna Jones
May 18, 1867-July 28, 1950

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, July 29, 1950, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Anna Jones, 83, of 704 Cass street, died at 12:40 p.m. yesterday at her home of a heart attack.

She was born May 18, 1867, at Pokagon, the daughter of Jessie and May Foster. She married Harry Jones in September, 1889.

Surviving are a son, Henry, and a daughter, Mrs. Pearl Jeffries, both of Niles, eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. Mrs. Jones was a member of the Full Gospel Assembly Pentacost church.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Pifer funeral home. The Rev. Harry Barnett will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Iris Deane Smith
Sept. 6, 1950

Niles Daily Star, Friday, September 15, 1950, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Among survivors of Iris Deane Smith, still-born daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, 612 Fort street, who died on Sept. 6, are her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerold Kane, rather than Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kane, as erroneously announced previously.

Max Sherburn
Sept. 9, 1916-Sept. 14, 1950

Niles Daily Star, Friday, September 15, 1950, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Services for Max Sherburn, 34, who was killed in a car-truck crash near Dyer,  Ind., early Thursday, will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Pifer Funeral home.

The Rev. T.M. Greenhoe will officiate at the service, and burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Carrie Sherburn, of Kalamazoo; his widow, Lydia, and one daughter, Norma Jean, of 964  South Thirteenth street, and his brothers and sisters, William, of Mattawan;; Lloyd, of Lawton, Mrs. Dan Brewer, of Kalamazoo, Mrs. Stanton Tharp, of Niles, Lester, of Niles, Carroll, of Vicksburg, and Mrs. Louis Forbes, of Kalamazoo.

Sherburn was born in Decatur on Sept. 9, 1916, and came here from Kalamazoo 10 years ago. He was employed by Long's Texaco service station here.