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MARGARET METLER

[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 13 January 1921]

The death occurred on Friday evening January 7th, 1921, of probably the oldest resident of Pelham Township, in the person of Mrs. Margaret Metler, widow of the late Woodruff Metler, in the ninety-fourth year of her age.

The funeral was held on Monday, at 2 p.m., from her late residence, to the Presbyterian Church, where services very appropriate to the occasion was conducted by the pastor, Rev. D.A. Ferguson, after which the remains were tenderly laid to rest in the cemetery adjoining. The bearers were: A.J. Bea, F.E. Beamer, Aaron Marshall, E.J. Kilman. J.A. McGlashan and P.J. Miller. Besides numerous relatives and friends, she leaves to mourn their loss, two sons and two daughters, viz -Austin, on the homestead here, and Frank, Mrs. Simon Hoover and Mrs. J.B. Crow, all of Fenwick.

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