Obituaries

Susan Lynn Pedersen
Sept. 13, 1957-Sept. 14, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, September 14, 1957, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Committal services were held today at Silverbrook Cemetery for Susan Lynn Pedersen, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Pedersen, of 1130 Rivers Court, who died at 1:30 a.m. today in Pawating Hospital where she was prematurely born Friday.  The Rev. L. George Beacock, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiated.
[Surviving in addition to the parents] are: the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Morrow and Mrs. L.P. Pedersen, all of Niles, and a sister, Kathy Lee, at home.

Herbert F. Harlan
May 30, 1888-Sept. 14, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, September 14, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

Herbert F. Harlan, 69, of 401 North Fourth Street, owner of the Harlan Cab Company of Niles, died at 5 a.m. today in Pawating Hospital where he had been a patient since Wednesday. He had been ill since March.

Mr. Harlan, a member of the Modern Woodmen of the World, was born May 30, 1888, in Anderson, Ind., and came to Niles from Benton Harbor in 1938.

Surviving are: his wife Mary; a son Myron Harlan, of Dearborn, Mich.; two daughters, Mrs. [illegible] Piper, of Niles, and Mrs. John De Koek Koek, of Kalamazoo; four grandchildren; one great-grandchild, and a sister, Mrs. Bertha Holmes, of Anderson, Ind.

Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the Pifer Funeral Home here with the Rev. L. George Beacock, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Bessie Scott
Jan. 20, 1884-Sept. 12, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Friday, September 13, 1957, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Bessie Scott, 73, of 52 South Third Street, died at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Pawating Hospital where she had been a patient since Sept. 5. She had been ill for some time.

Mrs. Scott was born Jan. 20, 1884, in Seymour, Ind., and moved to Niles 28 years ago from Indianapolis, Ind. Surviving is her husband, James.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Pifer Funeral Home here with the pastor of the first Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Donna Sonnenleiter
Oct. 2, 1932-Sept. 12, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Friday, September 13, 1957, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Donna Sonnenleiter, 24, 0f 1422 North 11th Street, died at 8 p.m., Thursday in the Berrien County Hospital, Berrien Center where she had been a patient for some time. She had been ill for a number of years.

Mrs. Sonnenleiter was born Oct. 2, 1932, in Niles and had lived here all her life. Surviving are: her husband, Arthur; a four-year-old daughter, Carmen Marie, at home; her mother, Mrs. Maleta Dittmar of Niles; her father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cecil, of Eau Claire, and two brothers, Ralph, of Niles, and Gordon, stationed with the United States Navy in Japan.

Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home beginning Saturday. Service arrangements are incomplete.

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, September 14, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Pifer Funeral Home here for Mrs. Donna Sonnenleiter, 24, 0f 1422 North 11th Street, who died Thursday night in the Berrien County Hospital following a lingering illness. The Rev. Gordon D. Everett, pastor of the First Evangelical United Brethren Church, will officiate and burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Edward Reum
Feb. 20, 1906-Sept. 11, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, September 12, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

Edward Reum, 51, former Niles resident and foreman at the Kawneer Company plant in Cynthiana, Ky., died at 10 a.m. Wednesday while at work.

Mr. Reum was born Feb. 20, 1906, in Niles and had lived here until his transfer to the Kentucky plant. He was a member of the Episcopal Church of the Advent at Cynthiana, the Appliance Products Management Organization and Cynthiana chapter of the National Management Association.

Surviving are: his wife Ada Snyder Reum; two daughters, Mrs. A.E. Aram, Jr., of Lexington, Ky., and Miss Dale Reum, at home; four grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Maurice Yonker and Mrs. John Jaroch, both of Niles, and Mrs. Lola Scholl and Mrs. Larned Williams, both of Inglewood, Calif., and three brothers, William A. and Herman Reum, both of Niles, and Clyde Reum, of Espanota, N. Mex.

Friends may call at the Kiger-Halbritter Funeral Home here beginning Friday afternoon. Committal services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Silverbrook Cemetery with the Rev. John G. Carlton, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church here, officiating.

Funeral services were held today at the Church of the Advent in Cynthiana, Ky.

Kurt Weimer*
April 6, 1887-Sept. 5, 1957

Niles Daily Star, Friday, September 6, 1957, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

Kurt Wiemer, 70, of 1529 Michigan Street, died at 11:50 p.m. Thursday in Pawating Hospital where he had been a patient since Aug. 21.

Mr. Wiemer, a retired printer, was born April 6, 1887, in Germany and came from that country in 1923 to make his home in this community. Surviving are: his wife, Elise, and two brothers in Germany.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the New Apostolic Church with the pastor, the Rev. Hugh Lee, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home.

*Name is spelled Wiemer in this obituary but is listed in Weimer in cemetery records.