Harriet (Thresher) Fitzgerald

Died April 20, 1932

MRS. HARRIET FITZGERALD

            Committal services for Mrs. Harriet Fitzgerald who died in the home of her brother, George Thresher, in Benton Harbor, on Wednesday evening, were conducted this morning in the family lot in Silverbrook cemetery by the Rev. Harry L. Nicholson, rector of Trinity Episcopal church.  Mrs. Fitzgerald was the widow of Porter Fitzgerald, of Niles.  Her brother, George Thresher, of Benton Harbor, and Mrs. Helen Fitzgerald Beech, of Chicago, a sister of the late Porter Fitzgerald, attended the committal services.  Mrs. Fitzgerald was a member of one of Benton Harbor’s oldest families.  Her father, the late J.P. Thresher, was one of the first editors of The Palladium.  The old Thresher homestead, was presided over by the late Mrs. Fitzgerald following the death of her mother.  The deceased was married to Porter B. Fitzgerald and the couple lived in Chicago until the time of Mr. Fitzgerald’s death, when Mrs. Fitzgerald moved to Syracuse, N.Y. to reside with her only daughter, Mrs. Campfield Leonard.  Another brother, Frank L. Thresher, of Minneapolis, also survives.  The body will be placed beside that of her husband who was the son of Col. T.J. Fitzgerald of Niles, a well known pioneer[sic] of Berrien County.  (Source:  Niles Daily Star, Friday, April 22, 1932, page 4, col. 3, Microfilm Niles District Library)