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DEATHS – MRS HARMON MISENER

[Welland Tribune February 19, 1940]

Mrs Phoebe Misener, widow of the late Harmon Misener, and mother of Mrs. C.V. Robbins of Edgar street, Welland, passed away at the St. Catharines General hospital on Saturday afternoon after a very brief illness. She suffered a seizure on Saturday morning and was removed to the hospital where she succumbed shortly after 1 p.m.. She was in her 84th year.

Mrs. Misener was born in Dunnville, and after her marriage took up a farm with her husband near Bismarck. Her husband preseceased her in 1922, but Mrs. Misener stayed on the farm until ten years ago, when she took up residence with a son, Charles Misener of Haynes avenue, St Catharines, with whom she lived until her death.

She was a member of the Evangelical church at Bismarck, and was well known and well liked with friends scattered throughout the peninsula.

Besides her son in St. Catharines and her daughter in Welland, Mrs. Misener is survived by two other sons, George and John of Tacoma, Wash., and a number of grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon  at two o’clock at the Bismarck Evangelical church, and interment will be in the Presbyterian cemetery at St. Anns.

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