Local obituaries for Berrien Springs, MI and surrounding areas
Delilah Marley
Jan 16, 2018
Delilah Marley was born July 7, 1978, in Daru, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. She is the next-to-last child in a family of nine children. Delilah grew up in a Methodist family until her parents accepted the Sabbath truth in the early 1980s. In 1996 she met Lucas and they dated for four years. On the 19th of December 1999,...
Barbara Ann Stover
Jan 11, 2018
Barbara “Barb” Ann Stover, 67, of Berrien Springs, died Thursday, January 11, 2018, at home surrounded by her family following a short illness. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, January 17, at the Berrien Springs United Methodist Church. Pastors Brenda Gordon and Linda Gordon will officiate. Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery, followed by a luncheon at...
William Michael Hayes
Jan 9, 2018
William M. “Will” Hayes, 70, of Baroda passed away at home on Tuesday, January 9, 2018, after a long battle with cancer. Will was born March 12, 1947, in De Soto, Missouri, to William and Sarah Ann (Dawes) Hayes. He was a 1965 graduate of Crystal City High School. In the late 1960s, Will served in the U.S. Air Force...
Warren G. Popp
Jan 8, 2018
Warren G. Popp, 89, of Berrien Springs, passed away Monday morning, January 8, 2018, at his home, surrounded by his children. Warren was born August 27, 1928 in Franklin Park, IL. He married Betty Nussdorfer of Fremont, MI, on January 8, 1950 and they settled in Berrien Springs shortly thereafter. Warren was a general contractor in southwest Michigan. He owned...
Mary Berneice "Bea" Felton
Jan 6, 2018
Mary Berneice "Bea" Felton, 79, of Watervliet passed away January 6, 2018 at Hanson Hospice Center, Stevensville. Funeral services will be at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 10, at Bowerman Funeral Home in Eau Claire. Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. until time of service. Memorials may be made to Hanson Hospice Center, Stevensville. Online messages www.bowermanfuneral.com. Bea was born May...
Helen L. Root
Jan 3, 2018
Helen L. Root, 85, of Berrien Springs passed away Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at Royalton Manor in St. Joseph. Born to Earl and Martha (Sheets) Curtis on March 28, 1932, Helen was raised in the Morton Hill area of Benton Harbor. A 1950 graduate of Benton Harbor High School, she was a nearly 50-year member of the First Presbyterian Church...
Kenneth Andrew Lehocky
Jan 2, 2018
Kenneth Andrew Lehocky, 82, of Berrien Springs passed away at his home January 2, 2018, after a lengthy illness. Ken was born June 15, 1935, in Chicago, the son of Angeline and Andrew Lehocky. He previously resided in Carpentersville, Illinois, and Algonquin, Illinois. He moved with his family to Berrien Springs in 1975 to work at Western Electric Co. in...
Dorothy Jeannine Snyder
Dec 27, 2017
Dorothy Jeannine Snyder, 88, of Niles, died Wednesday, December 27, 2017, at West Woods of Niles. A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, December 30, at the Niles Westside Seventh-day Adventist Church. Online messages may be left at www.allredfuneralhome.com. Memorial donations may be made to the Niles Seventh-day Adventist Church School Library (for children’s books). Jeannine was...
Forrest James "Jim" Moore
Dec 22, 2017
Forrest James “Jim” Moore, 82, of Eau Claire, died Friday, December 22, 2017, at West Woods of Bridgman. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, December 28, at Bowerman Funeral Home, Eau Claire, with Pastor Mark Mitchell of Chapel Hill United Methodist Church, Sodus, officiating. Friends are invited to visit beginning at 10 a.m., and to leave...
Dorothy M. Kesterke
Dec 21, 2017
Dorothy M. Kesterke, 96, longtime resident of Berrien Springs, died Thursday, December 21, 2017, at Pine Ridge Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Stevensville. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, January 9, at Berrien Center Bible Church, with Pastor Bill Zebell officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery, Berrien Springs. Friends are invited to visit from 6-8 p.m....
Betty "Pam" Van Den Heuvel
Dec 16, 2017
Betty Marie “Pam” Van Den Heuvel, 91, a local resident since January 2017, passed away on Saturday, December 16, 2017, at Woodland Terrace of Longmeadow in Niles. Visitation will be at 5 p.m. on Thursday, December 21, with a memorial service following at 6 p.m., at the Wisconsin Memorial Park Family Center, 13235 West Capital Drive, Brookfield, Wisconsin. Pastor Steve...
Bessie F. Bookwalter
Dec 13, 2017
Bessie F. Bookwalter, 103, passed away Wednesday, December 13, 2017, at The Willows in St. Joseph. Bessie was born December 16, 1913, in Chicago, the daughter of the late Frank and Anna (Liska) Krivanek. On February 20, 1937, she married the love of her life, Eames H. Bookwalter. They raised their family in Sister Lakes. Surviving are her children: Cynthia...
Ronald E. Colvin
Dec 10, 2017
A Berrien Springs icon passed away on Sunday, December 10, 2017: Ronald E. Colvin - known to all as RC. He was the first New Year’s Baby born on January 1, 1943 in Waco, Texas, to the late Andrew Jackson Abernathy Colvin and Ruth McFalls. He died at the age of 74. RC graduated from Berrien Springs High School in...
Mildred Swanson
Nov 25, 2017
Mildred Swanson, 90, of Berrien Springs, died Saturday evening, November 25, 2017. She was born July 2, 1927, in North Yarmouth, Maine, the daughter of Everett and Viola (Baston) Jamieson. She married Arnold R. Swanson on June 20, 1948, in Camden, Maine. In addition to being a homemaker, she was a Seventh-day Adventist church school teacher in New England and...
Edna A. Wheeler
Nov 21, 2017
Edna A. Wheeler, 83, of Sodus passed away peacefully at 12:21 p.m. Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at Hanson Hospice Center in Stevensville. She was born June 6, 1934 in Giles, Tennessee to Ole and Mary Ella James. She married the love of her life, Otis “Bud” Wheeler Jr. on July 14, 1967. Some of her many jobs included Heath Company,...
Donna Mae Adcock
Nov 4, 2017
Saturday, November 4, 2017, our family tree lost a beautiful branch when Donna Mae Durham Adcock died at her home in Eau Claire. She was born March 20, 1932, in Ozark County, Missouri, to Welmer and Tressie Durham. In 1948 her family moved to Michigan. Donna finished high school in Eau Claire. On March 13, 1963, she married Robert E....
James Dedic
Nov 1, 2017
James Dedic, 87, of Berrien Center, died Wednesday, November 1, 2017, at his home. A memorial service will be held at 12 noon Monday, November 6, at Berrien Center Bible Church, with Pastor Robert Pruitt of the Coloma Bible Church officiating. Memorial donations may be made to Coloma Bible Church for Michigan Migrant Ministries. Bowerman Funeral Home, Eau Claire, has...
Brian Quiriconi
Oct 27, 2017
Brian Keith Quiriconi, 58, of Berrien Springs died Friday, Oct. 27, 2017, at his home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Sodus, of which he was a member. The Rev. Robert Duehlmeyer will officiate. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery, Berrien Springs. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30,...
Kathleen Stephens
Oct 25, 2017
Kathleen Harriet Stephens, 91, of Berrien Springs, died Wednesday, October 25, 2017, at home after a brief illness. She was born February 13, 1926, on a farm near Hillsdale, Wisconsin, to Harry and Ardith Hoff. After graduation from Barron (Wisconsin) High School in 1944, Kathy attended Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Business College, then Bob Jones University. Her marriage to Roland R....
Harry William Reeves
Oct 24, 2017
Harry William Reeves, 97, of Niles, passed away Tuesday, October 24, 2017, at Lakeland Hospital in Niles. A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, October 27, with military rites immediately following, at Allred Funeral Home in Berrien Springs, where friends may visit beginning at 1:30 p.m. Private inurnment will be in Rose Hill Cemetery, Berrien Springs. Online...
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