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William Aprill Passes At Home

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Ann Arbor News, May 23, 1938
Day
23
Month
May
Year
1938
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William J. Aprill, former member of the Ann Arbor police department for 17 years and former business man, died early yesterday morning at his resident at 817 W. Huron St., after a brief illness. He was 69 years old.
He was born April 4, 1869, in Scio township, a son of Jacob and Agatha Frey Aprill and had been a resident of Ann Arbor the last 45 years. He was married Dec. 14, 1893, to Eliza Andress of Scio township.
In 1898, he established a show business on E. Washington St., continuing to operate the store for 12 years. He then joined the Ann Arbor police force, serving as a patrolman for 17 years. For the next four years, he held the contract for transporting the mail from the Ann Arbor post office to the railroad station. He retired from active business about six years ago.
He was a member of Zion Lutheran church, the brotherhood of the church, the Elks lodge and the Schwaben Verein.
Surviving are his wife; two sons, Orman W. and Paul A., both of Detroit; a brother, Fred of Saline; six sisters, Miss Pauline Aprill of Ann Arbor, Mrs. William Binder of Chicago, Mrs. Lydia Kuehner of Ann Arbor, Mrs. Fred Wildman of Washington, D. C., and the misses Minnie and Rose Rugert of Ann Arbor; and several nephews and nieces.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Muehlig chapel with Rev. E. C. Stellhorn officiating. Interment will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the residence until tomorrow morning and at the chapel from noon until the hour of the service.