Mrs. Clara Bell Woodruff
May 21, 1871-May 22, 1958

    Mrs. Clara Bell Woodruff, 87, of 1576 Barron Lake Road, died at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Berrien County Hospital at Berrien Center where she had been a patient for the past four days.  She had been in failing health for the past several years.
    Mrs. Woodruff was born May 21, 1871 in Akron, O., and had lived most of her life in this community, where she was a member of the Salvation Army.
    Surviving are: a son, John Bowerman, of River Dale, Ill.; a daughter, Mrs. Loren Babcock, of Niles; two grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.
    Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Kiger Halbritter Funeral Home.
[illegible] James Shiels, Niles Salvation Army commander, officiating.  Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

(Source:  Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, May 23, 1958, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library)

Lora Alice Jackson
March 7, 1953

    Lora Alice Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jackson, rural route one, Niles, was stillborn at Pawating Hospital at 11:45 p.m. Saturday.
    Survivors in addition to the parents are brothers Edward and Michael and sisters Debreth and Ruth; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jackson, Dyersburg, Tenn., and Mr. and Mrs. Lara Seratt, Dyersburg, Tenn.
    Committal services were held in Silverbrook Cemetery today at 2 p.m.

(Source:  Niles Daily Star, Monday, March 9, 1953, page 2, col. 5-6, microfilm Niles District Library)

Teresa May
March 8, 1953

    A daughter, Teresa, was still born at 12:45 p.m. Sunday in Pawating Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. George May, Barron Lake.
    Surviving besides the parents are: a grandfather, Frank May, Niles; one sister, Sharon Ann, and a brother, John, both at home.
    A prayer service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Pifer Funeral Home by the Rev. Ray L. McCoy, Baptist pastor.  Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

(Source:  Niles Daily Star, Monday, March 9, 1953, page 2, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library)

Richard Allen Seitz
March 7, 1953

Niles Daily Star, Monday, March 9, 1953, page 2, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library

Robert[sic] Seitz was still-born at Pawating Hospital at 3:30 p.m. Saturday to Mrr.[sic] and Mrs. Robert Seitz Sr., 511 Eagle street.

Also surviving are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Albright and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Seitz, Niles.

Services were held at 2:30 pm.. today at the Pifer Funeral Home, with the Rev. T.M. Greenhoe, Presbyterian pastor, officiating.  Burial was in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, March 10, 1953, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon for Richard Allen Seitz, still-born son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Seitz, 511 Eagle street, and burial was in Silverbrook Cemetery. The Rev. T.M. Greenhoe, Presbyterian pastor officiated.

Frederick Robert Eaglesfield
May 4, 1883-October 2, 1961


    Frederick Robert Eaglesfield, 78, 820 Topinabee Road, retired vice president of the Kawneer Co., died at 3:40 pm. Monday in Pawating Hospital. He had been in failing health for three and a half years and a hospital patient for one day.
    A native of Niles, he was born May 4, 1883, and had served his community in many capacities, as a Boy Scout leader, officer of the Cancer Society and chairman of the Park Board.
    His 36 years of service at the Kawneer Co., began Oct. 1, 1912. He retired on June 1, 1948, as a vice presdent and director. His business career also saw associations with the National Leather Co., and the former Niles City Bank, each for five years.
    Mr. Eaglesfield had been active for many years in the Southwestern Michigan Boy Scout Council program, having served as council president from 1947 to 1951 and for a number of years as an executive board member.  He also was a council representative on the National Council for eight years, and had been instrumental in development of Camp Madron during the early 1950's.
    In 1952, the council bestowed on him the highest honor given a volunteer for service to youth, the Silver Beaver Award.
    His services to the Scouting program also brought him the distinction of being the only den grandfather in national Scouting.
    In other phases of his community life, Mrs.[sic] Eaglesfield was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, a life member of St. Joseph Valley Lodge No. 4, F& AM, member of DeWitt Clinton Consistory, 32nd degree, member  of Saladin Temple of Grand Rapids, life member of Niles Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar, member of St. Vincent Conclave No. 33, Red Cross of Constantine, honorary member of the Niles Rotary Club, life member of the Niles Elks Lodge, member of the 25-year Club of Kawneer and a charter member of the Pickwick Club.  He also had been a member of Orchard Hills Country Club.
    During his career at Kawneer Co., Mr. Eaglesfield was named company secretary in 1917, secretary and sales manager in 1918, vice president in charge of sales in 1972[sic], vice president in charge of purchasing in 1934, and vice president in charge of engineering sales in 1936.  He held the latter post until his retirement in 1948.
    He was a director of the firm from 1918 through 1949, a year after his retirement.
    On Sept. 6, 1905, he was married in Niles, to the former Miss Kathryn Winter, who survives.
    Also surviving are: two daughters, Mrs. John W. Strayer, 553 Grant St., and Mrs. Roger L. Thompson, Westport, Conn., and five grandchildren.
    Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Trinity Episcopal Church with the rector, Rev. John G. Carlton, officiating.  Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
    Friends are being received at the Kiger and Halbritter Funeral Home.

(Source: Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, October 3, 1961, page 2, col. 1-2, microfilm Niles District Library)

Roy A. Cody
Nov. 2, 1885-March 7, 1953

Niles Daily Star, Saturday, March 7, 1953, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

    Roy A. Cody, 515 Nieb Court, died suddenly this morning in a down town store. He had been in the store only a short time when he collapsed.
    Cody had been been a school guard for the Niles Police Department.  His brother, Russ, is a Niles policeman.   
   
Niles Daily Star, Monday, March 9, 1953, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library   

    Roy A. Cody, 515 Nieb court, died at 10:30 a.m. Saturday on arrival at Pawating Hospital.  He was a brother of Russell Cody, a member of the Niles Police Force.
    Surviving are his wife, Charlotte; one daughter, Mrs. Wade Titus, Kalamazoo; two sons, Jack and William Cody, of Niles; three grandchildren, his one brother, Russell, of Niles, and four sisters, Mrs. George Johnson, Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. James Brewer, of Forget, Saskatchewan, Canada, Mrs. Roy Wiest and Mrs. Ruth Richardson, both of Niles.
    Cody was born on Nov. 2, 1885, in Midland, and came here from Wolf Point, Mont., 27 years ago.  He was retired from the New York Central Railroad Company as a machinist's helper.
    Friends may call at the Pifer Funeral Home, where services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Tuesday by the Rev. T.M. Greenhoe, Presbyterian pastor.  Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.