Newspaper writeups of funerals may give additional clues as to survivors. Pallbearers may be more distant family members who are not named in the obituary. Most of the men listed in the 1962 example were nephews of the deceased–there’s just one that I have to figure out who he is. 
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Years ago people collected “funeral cards” . Some of them listed all the pertinent dates and sometimes the pallbearers, too. I found a couple relatives with those.
Reading my gg-grandfather’s obituary was the only way I knew he had a living sister — a sister we’d never know about before.