BERNARD "BEN" NILLES
Ben Nilles, 84, of 1418-18th St., Two Rivers, retired longtime superintendent of mails at the Two Rivers Post Office, and a member of a pioneer Two Rivers family, died Saturday noon at Los Altos, Calif., hospital. He had been
visiting with a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Kathrine) Gonia in that city.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Klein and Stangel, Inc. Funeral Home, Two Rivers, and at 11 a.m. at St. Luke Catholic Church, the Revs. Hubert Nilles, a nephew, of Cooperstown and George Beth of Kaukauna officiating. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.
Mr. Nilles was born Feb. 9, 1887, at Two Rivers, a son of the late Peter Hubert and Anna Beth Nilles. His father who died when the former was four years old, operated a funiture store and undertaking establishment, now the site of Kronzer and Wolf Co. on 18th Street.
Mr. Nilles started his long identification with the postal service at Two Rivers Aug. 1, 1908, after graduating from the old Manitowoc Business College, and before the inaugural of the city mail carrying service. The office staff included the late postmaster, Frank E. Riley, the late Harry R. Hurst, assistant postmaster, and the late Miss Ella Saubert. The rural carriers were the late Carl Saubert, John Goedjen, and Charles Ahrens.
One of the more widely known hikers in the area, Mr. Nilles had walked thousands of miles over a 50-year period with his longtime companion, William Halberg, retired city assessor. They frequently hiked to Sturgeion Bay, Algoma and Kewaunee.
Mr. Nilles married the former Virgil Bowe, a native of Ohio, in 1924. She was a teacher in the old H.P. Hamilton elementary school at Two Rivers. She died April 6, 1943. Of the family of four other brothers and two sisters, all are deceased, including the Rev. Peter, Frank, John and Henry Nilles and the Misses Kate and Mary Nilles.
A Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus, Mr. Nilles served in 1931 as grand knight of Mother of Hope Council No. 1957, Knights of Columbus. He was also a member of the Third Order of St. Francis.
Surviving is another daughter, Sister M. Andre, the former Helen Nilles, of St. Paul, Minn., and seven grandchildren.
Friends may call at Klein and Stangel, Inc., Funeral Home here after 4 p.m. Tuesday where memorial services for the parish and the Knights of Columbus will be at 7:45 p.m.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. April 19, 1971
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City cemetery records contain the following:
Name: Nilles, Bernard Pete
Age: 84
Burial Date: 4-21-1971
Typ: I (Interment or Regular Burial)
Ben Nilles, 84, of 1418-18th St., Two Rivers, retired longtime superintendent of mails at the Two Rivers Post Office, and a member of a pioneer Two Rivers family, died Saturday noon at Los Altos, Calif., hospital. He had been
visiting with a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Kathrine) Gonia in that city.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Klein and Stangel, Inc. Funeral Home, Two Rivers, and at 11 a.m. at St. Luke Catholic Church, the Revs. Hubert Nilles, a nephew, of Cooperstown and George Beth of Kaukauna officiating. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.
Mr. Nilles was born Feb. 9, 1887, at Two Rivers, a son of the late Peter Hubert and Anna Beth Nilles. His father who died when the former was four years old, operated a funiture store and undertaking establishment, now the site of Kronzer and Wolf Co. on 18th Street.
Mr. Nilles started his long identification with the postal service at Two Rivers Aug. 1, 1908, after graduating from the old Manitowoc Business College, and before the inaugural of the city mail carrying service. The office staff included the late postmaster, Frank E. Riley, the late Harry R. Hurst, assistant postmaster, and the late Miss Ella Saubert. The rural carriers were the late Carl Saubert, John Goedjen, and Charles Ahrens.
One of the more widely known hikers in the area, Mr. Nilles had walked thousands of miles over a 50-year period with his longtime companion, William Halberg, retired city assessor. They frequently hiked to Sturgeion Bay, Algoma and Kewaunee.
Mr. Nilles married the former Virgil Bowe, a native of Ohio, in 1924. She was a teacher in the old H.P. Hamilton elementary school at Two Rivers. She died April 6, 1943. Of the family of four other brothers and two sisters, all are deceased, including the Rev. Peter, Frank, John and Henry Nilles and the Misses Kate and Mary Nilles.
A Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus, Mr. Nilles served in 1931 as grand knight of Mother of Hope Council No. 1957, Knights of Columbus. He was also a member of the Third Order of St. Francis.
Surviving is another daughter, Sister M. Andre, the former Helen Nilles, of St. Paul, Minn., and seven grandchildren.
Friends may call at Klein and Stangel, Inc., Funeral Home here after 4 p.m. Tuesday where memorial services for the parish and the Knights of Columbus will be at 7:45 p.m.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. April 19, 1971
******
City cemetery records contain the following:
Name: Nilles, Bernard Pete
Age: 84
Burial Date: 4-21-1971
Typ: I (Interment or Regular Burial)
BERNARD "BEN" NILLES
Ben Nilles, 84, of 1418-18th St., Two Rivers, retired longtime superintendent of mails at the Two Rivers Post Office, and a member of a pioneer Two Rivers family, died Saturday noon at Los Altos, Calif., hospital. He had been
visiting with a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Kathrine) Gonia in that city.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Klein and Stangel, Inc. Funeral Home, Two Rivers, and at 11 a.m. at St. Luke Catholic Church, the Revs. Hubert Nilles, a nephew, of Cooperstown and George Beth of Kaukauna officiating. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.
Mr. Nilles was born Feb. 9, 1887, at Two Rivers, a son of the late Peter Hubert and Anna Beth Nilles. His father who died when the former was four years old, operated a funiture store and undertaking establishment, now the site of Kronzer and Wolf Co. on 18th Street.
Mr. Nilles started his long identification with the postal service at Two Rivers Aug. 1, 1908, after graduating from the old Manitowoc Business College, and before the inaugural of the city mail carrying service. The office staff included the late postmaster, Frank E. Riley, the late Harry R. Hurst, assistant postmaster, and the late Miss Ella Saubert. The rural carriers were the late Carl Saubert, John Goedjen, and Charles Ahrens.
One of the more widely known hikers in the area, Mr. Nilles had walked thousands of miles over a 50-year period with his longtime companion, William Halberg, retired city assessor. They frequently hiked to Sturgeion Bay, Algoma and Kewaunee.
Mr. Nilles married the former Virgil Bowe, a native of Ohio, in 1924. She was a teacher in the old H.P. Hamilton elementary school at Two Rivers. She died April 6, 1943. Of the family of four other brothers and two sisters, all are deceased, including the Rev. Peter, Frank, John and Henry Nilles and the Misses Kate and Mary Nilles.
A Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus, Mr. Nilles served in 1931 as grand knight of Mother of Hope Council No. 1957, Knights of Columbus. He was also a member of the Third Order of St. Francis.
Surviving is another daughter, Sister M. Andre, the former Helen Nilles, of St. Paul, Minn., and seven grandchildren.
Friends may call at Klein and Stangel, Inc., Funeral Home here after 4 p.m. Tuesday where memorial services for the parish and the Knights of Columbus will be at 7:45 p.m.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. April 19, 1971
******
City cemetery records contain the following:
Name: Nilles, Bernard Pete
Age: 84
Burial Date: 4-21-1971
Typ: I (Interment or Regular Burial)
Ben Nilles, 84, of 1418-18th St., Two Rivers, retired longtime superintendent of mails at the Two Rivers Post Office, and a member of a pioneer Two Rivers family, died Saturday noon at Los Altos, Calif., hospital. He had been
visiting with a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Kathrine) Gonia in that city.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Klein and Stangel, Inc. Funeral Home, Two Rivers, and at 11 a.m. at St. Luke Catholic Church, the Revs. Hubert Nilles, a nephew, of Cooperstown and George Beth of Kaukauna officiating. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.
Mr. Nilles was born Feb. 9, 1887, at Two Rivers, a son of the late Peter Hubert and Anna Beth Nilles. His father who died when the former was four years old, operated a funiture store and undertaking establishment, now the site of Kronzer and Wolf Co. on 18th Street.
Mr. Nilles started his long identification with the postal service at Two Rivers Aug. 1, 1908, after graduating from the old Manitowoc Business College, and before the inaugural of the city mail carrying service. The office staff included the late postmaster, Frank E. Riley, the late Harry R. Hurst, assistant postmaster, and the late Miss Ella Saubert. The rural carriers were the late Carl Saubert, John Goedjen, and Charles Ahrens.
One of the more widely known hikers in the area, Mr. Nilles had walked thousands of miles over a 50-year period with his longtime companion, William Halberg, retired city assessor. They frequently hiked to Sturgeion Bay, Algoma and Kewaunee.
Mr. Nilles married the former Virgil Bowe, a native of Ohio, in 1924. She was a teacher in the old H.P. Hamilton elementary school at Two Rivers. She died April 6, 1943. Of the family of four other brothers and two sisters, all are deceased, including the Rev. Peter, Frank, John and Henry Nilles and the Misses Kate and Mary Nilles.
A Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus, Mr. Nilles served in 1931 as grand knight of Mother of Hope Council No. 1957, Knights of Columbus. He was also a member of the Third Order of St. Francis.
Surviving is another daughter, Sister M. Andre, the former Helen Nilles, of St. Paul, Minn., and seven grandchildren.
Friends may call at Klein and Stangel, Inc., Funeral Home here after 4 p.m. Tuesday where memorial services for the parish and the Knights of Columbus will be at 7:45 p.m.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. April 19, 1971
******
City cemetery records contain the following:
Name: Nilles, Bernard Pete
Age: 84
Burial Date: 4-21-1971
Typ: I (Interment or Regular Burial)
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