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Updated on August 24, 2009

Tilly, Lois
BUCHANAN -- Lois Tilly, 92, of Buchanan, died at 11:15 a.m. Friday, May 28, 2004, at Riveridge Manor, Niles.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at the Swem Funeral Home, Buchanan, with the Rev. Thomas Nowak officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home one hour prior to the service. Burial will be in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Buchanan. Memorials may be made to St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Buchanan, of which she was a member.
Mrs. Tilly was born Jan. 27, 1912, in Russia. She was Miss Buchanan in 1931. She retired in 1973 from Simplicity Pattern Co., Niles, where she had been employed for 22 years.
She married "Dutch" Tilly on May 11, 1935, in Baroda. He died on Aug. 28, 1988.
Survivors include a son, Dale, of Buchanan; four grandchildren, Sharon Camp of Niles, Mike Tilly of Buchanan, Erik Tilly of Lansing and Karin Tilly of New Haven, Conn.; two great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. She also was preceded in death by a son, Lynn Tilly, on July 11, 2001.
Taken from The Herald - Palladium May 29, 2004 edition
Contributed By Genweb Coordinator 2005

Trobaugh, Lawrence - Monday, May 1, 1950 - Lawrence Trobaugh - Funeral services were held Saturday at Ruchville, Ind., for former Niles resident, Lawrence Trobaugh, who died suddenly of a heart attack in Peoria, Ill., where he was supervisor of construction for Wolfes-Jenson company, of Chicago. Surviving are his wife, Rita, of Chicago, a sone William of Chicago, his father Jess of Fowler. Ind., and a brother Maurice of Niles.

Tucker, Leadelle nee O’Barton
The News Palladium carried the obituary of Leadelle Tucker on 15 Mar 1965 and it reads: “Mrs. William Tucker Sawyer-Mrs. William (Leadelle O’Barton) Tucker, 39, 2635 Ostego, Fort Wayne, Ind., a former resident of Sawyer, died at 12:30 a.m. Sunday in Parkview hospital, Fort Wayne, where she had been a patient the past three weeks. She was born in Sawyer, July 25, 1925, and had resided in Fort Wayne the past four years. She was a former secretary at Industrial Rubber Goods Co., a graduate of Bridgman high school and a former member of the St. Joseph chapter of the Sweet Adelines. Surviving is her husband, whom she married Sept. 30, 1949 in Benton Harbor; a son, William Jr., at home’ her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eather O’Barton of Sawyer; and two sisters, Mrs. Roy (Bernice) Lagerquist of Sawyer and Mrs. Clarence (Dorothy) Wirth of Three Oaks. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Kerlikowske, Starks & Beatty funeral home, St. Joseph. The Rev. Donald McLeod, pastor of the United Church of Christ, Sawyer, of which she was a member, will officiate. Burial will follow in Weesaw cemetery, New Troy.” DOD 14 Mar 1965
- - contributed by: William Brackett at brackettwilliam@yahoo.com

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