The Herald-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan • 8

PAGE EIGHT THE NEWS- -PALLADIUM, BENTON HARBOR, MICH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1967 Death Took Unfailing Harvest Of Area Leaders Familiar Faces Gone From Scene Achievements Left Behind To Be Built Upon As it does each year, death cut large holes in the fabric of southwestern Michigan in 1967. Prominent names, persons of lowly station, the old and the young all were among those torn from their accustomed places with family, friends and community. Each one as he went, left an empty place behind him. More of the deaths chronicled through the course of this past were those of young men coming to the prime of life, soldiers who died in behalf of their country.

Because there were this year than in recent years, a separate record of these fallen heroes is presented elsewhere in this edition. The following account is partial list of other citizens of the area whose deaths occurred in 1967: January Nicholas (Nick) Argondelis of Benton township, widely known fruit processor and fresh produce broker, died Jan. 2 in Mercy hospital at the age of 63. He was a buyer on the Benton Harbor fruit market and owned the Pearl Grange Fruit exchange. St.

Joseph businessman and a award-winning amateur nationato photographer, James L. Huber, 55, died Jan. 6 in Memorial hospital. He was one of the founders of the Twin City Camera club. He was in the jewelry business since 1929.

The Rev. William David Ruff, 63, pastor of the Bethel Temple Pentecostal church of Buchanan, died Jan. 10 in the Buchanan Community hospital. He had been pastor of the church for 23 years. LeRoy (Pee Wee) Dorow of St.

Joseph, well-known in Twin Cities athletic circles, died Jan. 10 in Mercy hospital at the age of 34. A former professional baseball player, he was a sixth grade teacher at Stump school at the time of his death. Joseph Motz, 90, wellknown St. Joseph tailor, died Jan.

14 in Memorial hospital. He became a tailor apprentice at the age of 14 and had his own shop since 1929. Frank E. Lee, a retired Three Oaks businessman, died Jan. 18 in his home at the age of 86.

He was the owner of the Lee Theater in Three Oaks and directed the Three Oaks band many years. Mrs. Nina Easton Fee, Twin Cities' beautician for half a century, died Jan. 21 in Englewood, Calif. She served on the State Board of Cosmetology in the 1930s.

Nyle Adams, 67, Paw Paw village clerk since 1934, died Jan. 22 at his home. He was a former chief of the Paw Paw fire department Mrs. Clayton S. (Louise) Duerr, the eldest daughter of a prominent Twin Cities family, died at her home in Coral Gables, Jan.

22. She was daughter of the late Atty. Charles W. Stratton. Harold H.

Wank, 57, of Benton Harbor, former COowner of the Square Drug store in St. Joseph, died Jan. 22 in Memorial hospital. The Rev. Percy V.

Dawe, 81, former pastor of the St. Joseph Congregational church, died Jan. 26 Pompano Beach, where he had been making his home. February Mrs. Solomon (Rose) Radom, 70, a member of one of Benton Harbor's well known families, Feb.

1 in Mercy hospital. Warner D. Jones, 97, Dowagiac, a descendant of a pioneer family that had helped many escape, died Feb. 1 in slaves, Memorial hospital. He served as Cass county's register of deeds from 1905 to 1908, had been Penn township supervisor and was the county's first agricultural extension agent around 1917.

Frederick Richter, Niles insurance man, died Feb. 2 of an apparent heart attack at the age of 60. He was president of the Niles Association of Independent Insurance Agencies. Mrs. L.

George (Jane Jackson of St. Joseph, a wellknown figure in the Berrien county courthouse, died Feb. in Memorial hospital. She had been employed at the courthouse since 1918. Augustinej "Tene" Borrelli, assistant vice president for sales at Laboratory Equipment died Feb.

11 at his home in St. Joseph at the age of 42. He joined the firm in 1954. Mrs. Cora one of the oldest residents of Eau Claire, died Feb.

19 in the Berrien county hospital at 97. Richard "'Dick' Pullen, 47, southwestern Michigan square dance caller, died at his St. CLARE E. CECIL POTTS JAMES L. HUBER LeROY DOROW JOSEPH MOTZ REV.

PERCY DAWE Joseph home Feb. 24. Raymond mith, 74, former New Buffalo shop and mechanical drawing teacher. died Feb. 24 at his home in Lake Crystal, Minn.

Bernard "Nardy" Hartman, 41, Benton Harbor fireman for 13 years, died Feb. 26 in Mercy hospital. Four years prior to his death, he became a partner and president of the RX Camping Trailer Sales. Mrs. Nelson (Cora Feather, 79, of Berrien Springs, died Feb.

26 in Memorial hospital. Mrs. Feather was the mother of Robert G. Feather, chairman of the Berrien County Board of Supervisors. STANLEY R.

BANYON MRS. SOLOM RADOM AUGUSTINE "TENE" MRS. CORA MITCHELL RICHARD PULLEN RAYMOND SMITH March Theodore H. Agens, 36, St. Joseph resident, was pronounced dead on arrival March 1 at Memorial hospital following an apparent heart attack.

He was supervisor of literature and publications at Whirlpool's Laporte, plant. Mrs. Edward (Ramona) Winkel, 55, former St. Joseph resident, March 4 in Long Beach, Calif. She was a caseworker for the Berrien County Department of Social Welfare for five years and also served as supervisor in the NilesBuchanan area for the department.

MARTIN P. DWAN NICHOLAS ARGONDELIS BERNARD HARTMAN FRANK E. LEE ERNEST A. SCHILLINGER Ernest A. Schillinger, 65, former secretary of Pearson Construction Co.

and former mayor of the Village of Shoreham, died March at his St. Joseph home. B.J. (Sonny) Baccash, former Benton Harbor residents, died March 9 at his home in South Brevard, at 51. He retired five years ago from the navy as a lieutenant commander after having served for 18 years.

Mrs. Fred (Blossom) Fehlberg, who with her husband had operated Fehlberg's Catering near Glenlord since 1953, died March 13 in Memorial hospital. She was 53. Ollie A. Fellows, 84, retired Twin Cities businessman, died March 18 in Memorial hospital.

Mr. Fellows came to St. Joseph in 1907 and began a long career in the clothing store field. Mrs. Roy (Georgia Fries 66, well-known Benton Harbor artist, died March 19 in Mercy hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Fries owned the Roy B. Fies Electric Co. Mrs.

H.C. (Louise) Haase, 81, of Benton Harbor, wife of the Rev. H.C. Haase, former pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran church for 40 years, died March 19 in Mercy hospital.

R. G. Spoerl, Niles, president of the Southwestern Michigan Board of Realtors, died March 19 at the age of 42. Mr. Spoerl was a partner with J.C.

Morden in a real estate business. Mrs. George (Zula) Humphrey, 78, of Benton Harbor, died MRS. EVERETT COX OLLIE FELLOWS MRS. ROY FRIES DR.

WILLIAM BOPE PAUL I. PIERSON March 19 in the Druid Hills nursing home in Clearwater, Fla. Her husband was the founder of the Humphrey Insurance Company. Long-time St. Joseph Township Official Gale Smith was found dead at his home March 21.

He was 76. Mr. Smith had been active in township governmental affairs for about 35 years. Martin 1 P. Dwan, St.

Joseph, founder of the Dwan Home Canning died March in the West Suburban hospital in Oak Park, at the age The company he founded pros- NICHOLAS F. LAHR MRS. RAY HAYNES MRS. NINA EASTON FEE ALFRED H. SCHNEIDER pered and merged into what today is the Musselman-Dwan division of Pet Co.

Dr. William P. Bope, oldest practicing physician in Van Buren county, died March 27 at his home in Decatur. He was 95. Dr.

Bope had practiced medicine in Decatur the last 60 years. Hal Thompson, 55, of St. Joseph, traffic supervisor for Okadee Controls of Benton Harbor, died March 31 in St. Joseph's hospital, South Bend. He had made his home in the area for the past 30 years.

Paul I. Pierson, 83, died March 31 in his home at Baroda. Prior to moving to Baroda in 1949, he taught school in Ohio, Illinois Pennsylvania. He was a past president of the United Cerebral Palsy association of Berrien county. Mrs.

Victoria B. King, 92, formerly of St. Joseph, died March 31 in the Clinton Valley hospital Mount Clemens. Her husband, the late Dr. Louis A.

King, was a pioneer doctor and three-term mayor of St. Joseph. Alfred H. Schneider, former photographer in the Twin Cities, died March 31 in Pasadena. at the of 93.

He retired here in 1953 after 45 years in photography. April Hall, 33, a teacher HAPPY I SAW YEAR As 1968 clocks in, we wish you health, wealth happiness! Chaddock Insurance Agency SERVING THE COMMUNITY SINCE-1897 269 E. Empire Benton Harbor 926-7045 LOREN CAYO NORMAN HALL CHARLES BRODERICK DON HAMILTON at Sorter school, was dead on arrival at Memorial hospital April 3. He had made his home in Benton Harbor for the past four years. prominent Hagar township fruit farmer and co-founder of Broderick Brothers Cement Products, died April 9 in Mercy hospital at 82.

Don Hamilton, 81, former director of the farm labor office in Benton Harbor from 1943 to 1956, died April 11 at his retirment home in St. Cloud, Fla. JACK R. GARDNER TREVOR NICHOLS MRS. CHARLES F.

MORSE WILLIAM D. WILES Trevor Nichols, the Fennville fruit farmer, died April 12 in a hospital in Quarryville, Pa. Nichols gave his farm to Michigan State for research and experimentation. He also worked for many years as a reporter on the Chicago Daily News before his health forced him to move to Fennville. Mrs.

Charles F. (Gladyce M. Dempsey) Morse, 56, southwestern Michigan's 1926 Blossom Queen, died April 13 in her home in Buchanan. She was a (See page 9, sec. 1, col.

1) 1144 May It Be A Big Year For You BATSON PRINTING COMPANY 195 MICHIGAN AVE. BENTON HARBOR.