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Mast, Louise
The News Palladium carried the obituary for Louise Mast on 27 Apr 1940 and it reads: “Funeral Services For Louise Mast Set For Sunday Bridgman, April 27-Funeral services for Mrs. Louise Mast, 24, wife of Lloyd Mast of Livingston, will be held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Gaul, Stevensville, and at 2 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran church, Stevensville. Mrs. Mast who had been ill for the past eight weeks, died at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Mercy hospital. She was born Sept. 15, 195 in Stevensville and married to Lloyd Mast May 14, 1938. Besides her husband and parents, Mrs. Mast is survived by an infant daughter, Lloydene Louise, seven weeks old, four brothers, Albert, Herbert, Arnold and August Gaul, and three sisters, Margaret, Irene and Vera, all of Stevensville. The body will be taken to the Gaul home this afternoon from the W. F. Hall funeral home. The Rev. William Essig, pastor of the Stevensville Lutheran church, will officiate at the rites. Burial will be in Graceland cemetery. Casket bearers will be Harold Mathieu, Theodore Binger, Gustav Nimetz, Gustav Skala, Robert Brant and Ralph Mast.” Louise Gaul married William Lloyd Mast. DOD 26 Apr 1940 - contributed by: William Brackett at brackettwilliam@yahoo.comMcAllister, Elinor nee Upson
The Herald Palladium carried the obituary of Nora McAllister on 19 Jul 1941: “ Mrs. McAllister Taken By Death; Funeral Monday Mrs. Elinor McAllister, 72, of 119 Bond street, died this morning at 6:30 o’clock at her home following an illness of about two years. She had been confined to bed 12 weeks. The deceased was born January 26, 1869 in Seneca, Ill. and resided here 20 years. Her husband, Albertus J. McAllister died four years ago. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson and Miss Grace McAllister, Benton Harbor; a sister, Mrs. Carrie Osborne, Kansas City, Mo.; a brother Nelson Upson, at the late home, and three grandsons. Funeral services will be at 2 o’clock in the Dean mortuary. Burial will be in the City cemetery, St. Joseph. Friends may call at the mortuary.”
- contributed by: William Brackett at brackettwilliam@yahoo.comMcMillen, Rosa nee Harner
An obituary for Rosa McMillen was carried in the Benton Harbor News Palladium on 09 Aug 1955 and it reads: “Mrs. Clarence McMillen Buchanan, Aug. 9-Mrs. Clarence (Rosa May) McMillen, 60, of the Hills Corner district, died at her home at 3:15 p.m. Monday. She had been ill two years. She was born Sept. 15, 1984, in Baroda, the daughter of the late Moses and Maud Harner. On Dec. 24, 1912 she was married to Clarence McMillen, who survives in St. Joseph. Surviving beside her husband, are one son, Lester, of Route 1, Buchanan; one brother, Harry Harner of Baroda; and one sister, Mrs. Lavina Critzer, of Buchanan. She also leaves five grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Swem funeral home. The Rev. Frederick Williams, pastor of the Olivet Congregational church of Bridgman, will officiate. Friends may call at the Swem funeral home.” Clarence and Rosa McMillen and Lester and Pauline McMillen are buried in the Hinman Cemetery in Baroda Township. DOD 08 Aug 1955
- contributed by: William Brackett at brackettwilliam@yahoo.comMenchinger, Amelia nee Grieser
Amelia H. Mensinger has an obituary that was in the 31 Jan 1947 Herald Palladium. This obituary tells the story of this families travels. It reads: “New Troy Woman, Once Local Resident, Dies Amelia H. Menchinger, 71 died last night at 9 o’clock in her home at New Troy following an illness of three weeks. She had resided in Berrien County for 50 years. Mrs. Menchinger, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Grieser, was born June 26, 1874, in Russia. She was married to the late Gottlieb Menchinger in 1891. They immigrated to the United States in 1893 and lived in Kansas for three years before coming to Berrien county in 1896. They lived in Benton Harbor for four years and then moved to a farm at New Troy, where they resided until six years ago, then they moved into the village. Mr. Menchinger died on Aug. 17, 1944. Eleven children survive Mrs. Menchinger. They are: August and John Menchinger, Glendora; Conrad and Fred Menchinger, Benton Harbor; Ben Menchinger, New Troy; Mrs. Olga Yeske, St. Joseph; Mrs. Augusta Schmaltz, Mrs. Adina Kettleson, Mrs. Martha Taylor and Mrs. Lydia Hauch, New Troy, and Mrs. Agnes Barbee, Lakeside. Mrs. Menchinger also is survived by 25 grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Herman Maikowski and Mrs. Augusta Sommerfelt, Benton Harbor; three brothers, Leonard and John Grieser, Benton Harbor and Adolph Grieser, Lodi Calif.; and three aunts, Mrs. John Krieger, Baroda; Mrs. Rosalie Albright and Mrs. Paulina Biastock, Benton Harbor. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Russell Williams Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the Brethren church at New Troy, and burial will be in the New Troy cemetery. Six grandsons will act as bearers. Friends may call at the Connelly funeral home, Three Oaks, until 12:30 p.m., Sunday.”
- contributed by: William Brackett at brackettwilliam@yahoo.comMenchinger, Gottlieb
Gottlieb Menchinger’s obituary was in the 17 Aug 1944 issue of the Niles Daily Star (newspaper) and reads: “Gottlieb Menchinger New Troy, Dies in B. Harbor Hospital. Three Oaks, Aug. 17 Gottlieb Menchinger, 72, retired New Troy farmer, died at 12:05 this morning in Mercy hospital, Benton Harbor, after six months illness. Menchinger was born in Russia Aug. 28, 1872, and came to the United States with his wife Amelia, in 1893. He lived in the New Troy vicinity 44 years. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1942. Besides the widow he is survived by 11 children, August and John Menchinger, Mrs. Samuel Schmaltz and Mrs. Martin Hauch, all of Buchanan; Mrs. Ralph Taylor and Benjamin Menchinger, New Troy; Mrs. Elmer Kittleson, Three Oaks; Mrs. Harry Yeske, St. Joseph; Conrad Menchinger, Benton Harbor; Fred Menchinger, Battle Creek, and Mrs. William Barbee, Lakeside; 24 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren, and two brothers, Andrew and Joseph Menchinger, Benton Harbor. Friends may call at the Connelly funeral home here. The body will be taken to the Brethren church at New Troy, Saturday noon. Services will be conducted there at 2:30 Saturday by the Rev. Russell William, followed by burial in the New Troy cemetery.”
- contributed by: William Brackett at brackettwilliam@yahoo.comMiller, Alfred R. ALFRED R MILLER, - Niles Daily Star,Niles,MI., Tues. 9 - Aug. 1938
EX-PAINTER, DEAD Native of Germany Stricken at Daugther’s Home; Ill One Week. Ill for one week, Alfred R. Miller, a native of Germany and a retired sign painter and paper hanger, died at 1:10 o’clock this morning in the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. A. Stick; 407 North Fifth Street. He was 77 years old. Born in Dresden, Germany, Mr. Miller came to the United States when he was 19 years old. He moved to Niles from Chicago three years ago. Besides Mrs. Stick, he leaves his wife, the former Katie Schneider, whom he married in St. Paul, Minn., in 1886; another daughter, Mrs. Stanley Salman, Chicago; a son, Fred, Chicago; also six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon in the Price and Kinger Funeral Home. The Rev. Theo Eisen of the St. John Evangelical Church, of which Mr. Miller was a member, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. - Contributed by: Leanna Hardesty.Miller, Mrs. Bertha - Obit appeared in several area newspapers - April 5, 1955 - Mrs. Bertha Miller, 57, ................... died Pawating Hospital . Other information on obituary, but family burial information as follows:
Mrs. Miller was born Oct 25, 1897 in Milton Township and had lived in the vicinity all her life. Surviving besides her husband are: her mother, Mrs. Bertha Reum, of Niles; a son, Joseph of Niles; two grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Mervin Morris of Niles.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Pifer funeral Home here with the Rev. H. A. Meussling, paster of St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at the Funeral Home beginning Tuesday evening.Miller, Katie - - - - - Katie Miller - died Apr 13, 1949- Niles Daily Star - April 14, 1949
Katie Miller, aged 78, of rural route three, Pucker Street, Niles, died at 6:30 p.m. yesterday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Kate Stick, on rule route three. She was born in Germany, on October 20 1870, and came here from Chicago 18 years ago. Her husband, Alfred, died in 1938. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Frank Fisher, and a son, Alfred, both of Chicago, four grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the Kiger Funeral Home, where the funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday with the Rev. Harold Hohman officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery. She was a member of St. John’s Evangelical and Reform Church and of GAR number 45. - Contributed by: Leanna Hardesty.Mitchell, Joseph
Wednesday, 26 December 1877; Page 4, Column 4: MITCHELL -- Joseph Mitchell, for 27 years employed by the Central Road, and Superintendent of Mason Work on the line, died at his residence, in this city, on Sunday morning last, aged about 58 years. He was universally esteemed by all the men on the road and all who knew him. He leaves a wife and five children; copy of obituary sent from Dorothy Mitchell Jones; e-mail 19 Apr 2007.
He was born 23 Jan 1820 in VT, son of Newcomb Mitchell and Polly Howe Mitchell.
Contributed By Lynn CorbettMiller, Emma Maleta Yetzke - Emma Maleta Yetzke Miller was born December 15, 1897, the daughter of Fred and Bertha Walter, at Stevensville, Michigan.
She passed from this life on Tuesday morning, January 26, 1988, at the Martin Luther Nursing Home at South Haven, Michigan, at the age of 91 years.
She was married to Edward Yetzke on July 12, 1912, and, to this union, 12 children were born. On May 19, 1953, she was preceded in death by her husband, Edward. In October of 1956,
she married David Miller who also preceded her in death in July of 1963. Two sons, Harris and Emory Edward, preceded her in death as did three daughters, Eunice, Elaine, and Mrs. Eleanora (Ross) Mayer.
Emma is survived by three sons; Edward of Pullman, MI, Earl of Whittier, CA and Eugene of Waterford, WI; four daughters; Mrs. George (Evelyn) Zink of San Pedro, CA, Mrs. Eileen Johnson of McRae, Arkansas, Mrs. Russell (Ethel) Noss of Oklahoma City, OK and Mrs. Robert (Elrona) Wichner of Ionia, MI; 26 grandchildren, 44 great-grandchildren, and 17 great, great grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Ruth Liljeblad of El Monte, CA. She was a member of the Benton Harbor, Michigan, German Church of God for more than 65 years. Memorial services were conducted on Friday, January 29, 1988, at the Kerley Starks Funeral Home in St. Joseph, MI, with the Reverend Russell M. Noss, Pastor of the Midwest City Church of God, Midwest City, Oklahoma, officiating. Burial was in Riverview Cemetery, St. Joseph. {Herald Palladium} submitted by Marge Hess YetzkeMiller, Linnie nee Harner
An obituary for Linnie Miller was carried in the Benton Harbor News Palladium on 10 Feb 1951 and it reads: “Mrs. George Miller Mrs. Linnie May Miller, 70, a lifelong resident of Oronoko township near Baroda, died Friday at 1:55 p.m. at Mercy hospital, Benton Harbor, where she had been seriously ill for a week. She had been in ill health since last November. Mrs. Miller was born Feb. 1, 1881, in Oronoko township, the daughter of the late Michael and Frances Harner. Surviving is her husband, George; three daughters, Mrs. H. K. Cupp, Stevensville; Mrs. Vern Kegel, Sawyer; and Mrs. Roy Liskey, St. Joseph; one son, Myron Miller, Baroda; 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:30 p.m. at the Kerlikowske funeral chapel with the Rev. Frederick Williams, pastor of the Congregational church of Bridgman, officiating. Burial will be in Riverview cemetery.” DOD 04 Feb 1951
- contributed by: William Brackett at brackettwilliam@yahoo.com
Morrow, Mr. W. T.
Mr. W. T. Morrow died at his residence in Lincoln township on the 20th inst.. in the
seventy fourth year of his age. He was a native of Mendham, N.J. where he lived until 1861,
when he came to Michigan with his family. He had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church for fifty-three years. The cause of death was cancer, with which he had been afflicted for the
last twelve years, at times suffering greatly. He was buried at Stevensville, on the 21st last.
Taken From The St. Joseph Herald, June 26, 1880
Contributed By Deanna WestMurphy, Eliza - Mrs. Isaac Murphy - Miss Eliza Jinkins was born near Brownsville, Pa., April 12, 1815 and died in peace and hope of a happy reunion with her husband in the better world Jan 26, A.D. 1893, aged 77 years, 9 months and 14 days. She came with her parents, Baldwin and Mary Jinkins to Green County, Ohio, when but a few years old, and thence to Pokagon Prairie, Cass County, Mich. In 1825, She was married to Isaac Murphy, April 9, A.D. 1834, and lived with him in blissful union nearly sixty years. To them were born thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters. Six of these, two sons and four daughters preceded them to the future world. The children who survive them are our four sons, John J., Erastus and Isaac Jr., of Berrien Centre, and Rev. Albert Murphy, of Goodland Ind., and three daughters, Mrs. S.L. Snavely, of Berrien Centre, and Mrs. Rufus Williams and Mrs. Jacob Becker, of Pokagon Township, Cass County, Mich. These with twenty-five grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren, mourn their great loss. Mrs. Murphy was a woman of strong faith in Christ and the efficacy of prayer, and when her husband was taken away she earnestly desired to depart and be with him in the better world. It may be truly said of Mr. and Mrs. Murphy: "They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided." The funeral services were held on Saturday, Rev. H. C. Rose, who officiated at Mr. Murphy's funeral on Tuesday, preached a most excellent discourse from Gal. 6:7, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
Mrs. Murphy's funeral was a repetition of her husband's in nearly every particular: the Minister, Rev. H. C. Rose of Dowagiac; choir, the Becker family of North Berrien Centre; Undertaker, D.W. G. Gaugler of Berrien Springs; Pallbearers, Thomas Mars, Norman Nims, Jacob Brenner, Henry Hess, Aron Tony and Pallas H. Webster: Cemetery Sexton, Wm. H. Peck. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy's labors are ended, and side by side they quietly sleep in the beautiful Berrien Centre cemetery, where rest the remains of a vary large number of their relatives.
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