OBITUARY: Lillie Parmelia (Pierce) Meter, 1882-1954, Mitchell County, Iowa
             
Mitchell County Press-



                      RITES HELD FOR MRS. FRANK METER

Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Meter, 71, were conducted at 2 p.m. Feb. 19,
[1954] in the Methodist church at McIntire by the Rev. J. Howard Machlan,
pastor of the church, and the Rev. Thorlakson, pastor of the McIntire
Baptist church. Interment was at Ventura.

Mrs. Meter died in Mitchell County Memorial hospital, Osage, Feb. 16.

Mrs. Meter was born Lillie Parmelia Pierce, Sept. 30, 1882 at Poygan, Wis.,
to Myron and Mary Pierce.  She attended school at Omro, Wis.

She then lived with her sister, Mrs. Will Miller, of Garner and taught
school until she and Frank Meter were married Feb. 22, 1916, at Nevada, Ia.

They lived on a farm southeast of Garner.  Their daughters, Mrs. Donald
Baker of Clear Lake and Mrs. Robert Rush of Chicago, and son, Charles of
Canby, Ore., were born there.  Meters then moved to McIntire, where they
lived many years.

Her daughters, son and their father, six grandchildren and a brother, Myron
Pierce of Bemidji, Minn., survive.  Her sister, Mrs. Will Miller, and her
parents preceded her in death.



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