Emma V. Renterghem
January 8, 1899-January 14, 1983

The Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Saturday, January 15, 1983, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Emma V. Renterghem, 84, of 1329 Woodland, Portage, Mich., died Friday, Jan. 14, in Kalamazoo, after a short illness.   

She was a retired employee of Spencer’s Dry Cleaners and was a five-year resident of Kalamazoo, moving there from Niles.

Born Jan. 8, 1899 in Fergus Falls, Minn., she married Joseph Renterghem in Fergus Falls in April 1929. He died in December 1942.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. JoAnn King of Portage and a son, Lemont Renterghem of Greenville, Mich. She had five grandchildren.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 17 at the Pifer-Smith funeral Home.  Burial will be at Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends will be at Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday.  A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Sunday.

Memorials may be made to the Michigan Heart Association.

Ethel A. Rice
January 30, 1887-September 7, 1965

The Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Wednesday, September 8, 1965, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Ethel A. Rice, 78, of 1425 Terminal Road, died at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday in Pawating Hospital, where she had been a patient four days.  She had been Ill three weeks.

Mrs. Rice was born Jan. 30, 1887, in Bertrand Township, and was a lifetime resident of the community.  She was married here to Roy H. Rice, Nov. 13, 1907.  He survives.

Other survivors include three sons, Robert L. Harvey, Ill., Tom S., Dayton, Ohio, and Harry L., Sunflower, Kan.; two daughters, Mrs. Frances Shute, Bethesda, Md., and Mrs. Paul Houseman, Niles; 15 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the What-soever Class and Women’s Association of the church, and the Shakespeare Club.  She was a life member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Order of Eastern Star.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m., Friday in her church. The Rev. John P. MacLachlan, pastor, will officiate.  Interment will follow in the Silverbrook Cemtery mausoleum.

Friends will be received at the Halbritter-Swem Funeral Home after 7 p.m. today.

The family requests memorials contributions be made to the Cancer Fund or to the memorial fund of the First Presbyterian Church.

Roy H. Price
August 17, 1883-October 18,1976

The Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Tuesday, October 19, 1976, page 7, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

NILES—Roy H. Rice, 93, formerly of 1425 Terminal Rd., died at 5:55 p.m. Monday at Pawating Hospital after an extended illness.

A member of the First Presbyterian Church and the St. Joseph Valley Masonic Lodge, he was the retired own of Rice’s Dairy.

Mr. Rice was born Aug. 17, 1883 in Niles and lived here his lifetime. On Nov. 13, 1907 in Niles, he married Ethel A Stryker, who died Sept. 7, 1965.

Survivors include three sons, Robert of Harvey, Ill., Tom S. of Dayton, Ohio, and Harry of DeSota, Kan.; two daughters, Mrs. Paul (Jane) Houseman of Niles and Mrs. Jane (Frances) Shute of Bethesda, Md., a sister, Mrs. J. Walter Wood of Evanston, Ill.; 17 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. 

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Halbritter Funeral Home with the Rev. Keith Morrow of the Buchanan Presbyterian Church officiating.

Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.  Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church or the Niles Community Library.

Elizabeth V. Morrow
November 15, 1873-December 18, 1965

The Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Wednesday, December 22, 1965, page 1, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Committal rites for Mrs. Elizabeth Y. Morrow, 92, of 122 Silverbrook Ave., were conducted at 2 p.m. today in Silverbrook Cemetery.  The Rev. John Meeng, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Mishawaka, officiated.

She died at 12:10 p.m., Saturday in Daytona Beach, Fla., Following an extended illness. 

Mrs. Morrow was born Nov. 15, 1873, in Cass County, and lived most of her lifetime in this area.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Noel C. Fink, Mishawaka; a son, Seth B. Bidwell, Phoenix, Ariz.; three grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

George Zello Allen
October 19, 1852-February 28, 1932

The Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Monday, February 29, 1932, page 1, col. 8, microfilm Niles District Library

ZETTO G. ALLEN, ONE OF FIRST RURAL MAIL CARRIERS, IS DEAD

Zello G. Allen, 79, one of the first rural carriers from the Niles postoffice, died n Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in this home north of River Bluff on US-31, where he had lived since 1918. He had been a resident of Niles and vicinity for more than 50 years. Mr. Allen had been indisposed for about a month. Pneumonia developed about a week ago and he had been critically ill since.

Mr. Allen was born in Auburn, N.Y., on Oct. 19, 1852. He was married there to Imogene Thomas, who died in Niles in 1913. Two children born to the died in infancy. Mr. Allen engaged in siveral business enterprises after coming to Niles, the last of which, before entering the government service as a mail carrier, was the bicycle business having conducted a shop for the sale of of bicycles on Front street between Broadway and Main street. He was appionted a mail carrier in 1900 with the establishment of rural free delivery service in Niles. Three routes were then opened. Jerome Pease was appointed to rural route No. 1, Mr. Allen to route No. 2, and Arthur Walton, deceased, to route No. 3.d

A week after the death of Mrs. Allen, Mr. Allen fell and broke one of his legs. He then invited Mr. and Mrs. Peter Trommel to move into his home, then located at Seventh and Oak street, and to make their home together and these arrangements prevailed until his death.

Mr. Allen was elected as an elder of the Presbyterian church on April 3, 1914, was ordained an elder immediately after and had since so served that church.

Mr. Allen's only brother, Eugene, of Detroit, was stricken with paralysis about a week ago. No word had been received from Detroit up to this morning as to his condition.

The funeral services will be held on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Presbyterian church. The Rev. G.W. Simon will officiate. Burial will be made in Silverbrook cemetery.

Cornelia A. Morrow
February 16, 1870-September 30, 1927

The Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Friday, September 30, 1927, page 4, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

NEWS in BRIEF: MRS. FRANK MORROW DIES

Dr. F.N. Bonine received a message late this afternoon from Henry Morrow, announcing the death of his brother's wife, Mrs. Frank Morrow, in Brooklyn, N.Y. The body will be brought to Niles for burial and is expected to reach here at 11:30 Sunday morning.

The Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Tuesday, October 4, 1927, page 4, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

NEWS in BRIEF: HOME AFTER FUNERAL

Colonel Frank Morrow of Fort Hamilton, New York, husband of Mrs. Frank Morrow whose last rites were performed at Silverbrook cemetery Sunday noon by Rev. W.K. Chidester, has returned to his post in the west. Other members of the family to return to their homes following the funeral were Col. and Mrs. Henry Morrow, of Governor's Island, N.Y., Col. William Morrow of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Malcolm Morrow of Columbus, Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs. McAllister of Lansing, Mich. The body was laid to rest in the Morrow family lot.