Alfred Jennings Apple
April 2, 1897-April 3, 1987

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Saturday, April 4, 1987, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library

Alfred Jennings Apple, 91, 506 Travers Circle, Mishawaka, Ind., formerly of Niles, died at 5:45 A.M. Friday at Regency Place in South Bend.

He retired in 1966 as a shoe salesman with Weyenberg Shoe Co. Detroit.

Apple was born April 2, 1897 in Paoli, Ind. On Jan 22, 1920, he married Lucille Freshwater, who survives. Also surviving is one daughter, Annelle Wyitt of Mobile, Ala. and two grandchildren.

Services are at 3 p.m. Monday at Pifer-Smith Funeral Home. Burial will be at Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends may call [illegible] Sunday at the funeral home.

David John Albright
June 7, 1946-April 15, 1987

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Thursday, April 18, 1987, page 2, col 1, microfilm Niles District Library

David John Albright, 40, of Roaring Springs Way, Dallas, formerly of Niles, died Wednesday at Parkland County Hospital in Dallas.

He was a banking cashier. An Army veteran who served in Vietnam, Albright left Niles in 1976.

Surviving are his mother, Laverne Marie Albright of Niles; three sisters, Beverly Pressnall of South Bend, Ind., Kathy Moore of Niles and Brenda Albright-Khurshid of Chicago; and a brother, Richard Albright of Ft. Myers, Fla.

Services are at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Pifer-Smith Funeral Home. Rev. James Baker officiating. Burial will be at Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends may call 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.

Arthur Ambrose Mould
July 18, 1918-April 12, 1987

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Tuesday, April 14, 1987, page 2, col 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Arthur Ambrose Mould, 73, 6436 Auburn Ave., Cambridge Village, Bradenton, Fla., died at 1:15 p.m. Sunday at his home.

He was born July 18, 1913 in Evanston, Ill. and lived in Niles since 1918. He was a realtor and was Niles Township Clerk for 19 years. In Niles he was past president of the Southwestern Michigan Board of Realtors and the Niles Lions Club, was a member of the Gateway Chorus of Barbershoppers and was a member of the Church of the Savior. In Bradenton he belonged to the Sarasota Chapter of Barbershoppers, the Bradentones Quartet and the Bayshore Gardens Reformed Church.

On April 17, 1936, in Niles he married Evelyn Boonstra who survives. Also surviving are one son, Arthur Mould of Wichita, Kan.; two daughters, Ann Bowers of Birmingham and Shirley Mould of Bradenton; one sister, Lillian Mould of Niles; and . . .

. . .[Illegible] . . .Church of the Savior, Dr. James Bennett officiating.  Florida services area Wednesday at Bayshore Gardens Reformed Church.

Private burial services by Rev. Kenneth Hesselink will be Saturday morning at Silverbrook Cemetery. There is no visitation.

Memorials may be made to the Berrien County Cancer Service of[sic] the Church of Savior.

Local arrangements were made by Halbritter Funeral Home.

Jacob Mueller
Jan 31, 1899-April 15, 1987

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Thursday, April 18, 1987, page 2, col 1, microfilm Niles District Library

Jacob Mueller, 88, 809 Platt St., Niles, died early Wednesday morning at home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

He was retired from Kawneer Co., Inc., as a maintenance engineer.

Born Jan. 1, 1899 in Niederhelfenschwiel, Switzerland, he lived in this area since 1942, coming from Chicago.

On June 16, 1923 in Chicago, he married Elizabeth Bach, who died March 12, 1983.

Surviving are a daughter, Elizabeth McNeill of New Buffalo; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

There will be no services or visitation. Burial will be at Silverbrook Cemetery.  Arrangements were made by Pifer-Smith Funeral Home.

Sophie B. Nicholson
March 16, 1904-Dec. 15, 1978

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Monday, December 18, 1978, page 2, col 5-6, microfilm Niles District Library

NILES―Sophie B. Nicholson, 74, of 3114 S. Woodlawn, died Friday at her home.

She was born March 18, 1904 in Michigan City, Ind.

On June 26, 1933, in Plymouth, Ind., she married James A. Necholson[sic], who died Aug. 15, 1975.

Survivors include a nephew, Joe Carr of Niles; three brothers, Roy, Anthony and Max Pietrowski, all of Michigan City; a sister, Mrs. Matilda Hatfield of Detroit; and a half-sister, Mrs. Helen Johnson of Lafayette, Ind.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Pifer-Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. Harold Asire of Emmanuel Baptist Bible Church officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery

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

Mable M. Ribble
Dec. 24, 1890-Dec. 11, 1978

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Thursday, December 14, 1978, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

NILES: Word has been received here of the death at 6:30 a.m. Monday of Mrs. Mable M. Ribble, formerly of Niles, of Staten Island, N.Y.

Funeral services for Mrs. Ribble were to be held at 10:30 a.m. today at the Pifer-Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. William Fuerstenau of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial was to follow in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Mrs. Ribble was born Dec. 24, 1890 in Vandalia, and left Niles, in 1933. She lived in South Bend for many years, moving to New York in 1960.

She married Frank Ribble in Niles in 1914. He died in 1963.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Marion Gable of Staten Island; and a sister, Mrs. Robert (Lena) Badgero, of Niles.