Berrien-Washtenaw County MI Archives Obituaries.....Eisen, Theophilus February 28, 1963
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Niles Daily Star, Thursday, February 28, 1963
Rev. Theophilus Eisen
March 23, 1879-Feb. 28, 1963

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, February 28, 1963, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles
District Library

Rev. Eisen Dies Today

	The Rev. Theophilus Eisen, 88, of 51 N. State St., died at 4:55 a.m. today in
Pawating Hospital, where he had been a patient since Sunday.
	Rev. Eisen was born March 23, 1879, in Lausanne, Switzerland, and came to the
United States when he was three. His father, Gottlieb Eisen, served as minister
on the German Evangelical Synod of North America in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana
nd Michigan.
	He graduated from Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., in 1903, and
served churches in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. He came to Niles in 1932, and
retired in 1947, following 15 years as pastor of the church now known as St.
John's United Church of Christ. He was the author of "This Old Leather Satchel,"
reflections of a retired minister.
	He married Elizabeth Fischer in 1907; after her death,  He married Alma
Brenner. She died in 1929. He married Marie Rosen in 1932. She survives.
	Other survivors include three daughters, Miss Agnes Eisen, Athens, Ohio, Miss
Ruth Eisen, Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Richard Cooper, Niles; a
step-daughter, Mrs. Robert Thompson, also of Niles; a sister, Mrs. Hannah
Schoen, Dexter; and five grandsons.
	Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday in St. John's United
Church of Christ. The Rev. Richard Fraser, pastor, will officiate, assisted by
the Rev. E.A. Irion, pastor of the United Church of Christ, St. Joseph and the
Rev.John P. MacLachlan, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church here. Burial
will be in Chelsea. 
	Friends will be received at the Kiger Funeral Home after noon Friday.




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