Allen County OhArchives Obituaries.....Metzger, Clarissa Matilda March 12, 1909
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Lima Times Democrat, March 13, 1909
"MESSAGE CONVEYING ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH OF MRS. CLARA METZGER RECEIVED TODAY.
DECEASED WAS PIONEER RESIDENT.  DEMISE OCCURRED AT LOS ANGELES, CAL. –
BODY WILL ARRIVE THURSDAY.

A telegram received this morning by C.E. Eckert and son, asking them to meet 
the 6:50 train over the C. and E. road, on Thursday morning, to care for the 
remains of Mrs. Clara Metzger and asking them to also notify the friends here, 
was the first intimation received in this city of the death of one of the best 
known and most cultured women of Lima.

Some ten days ago Mr. E. B. Cunningham, a brother of the deceased, had a 
letter from California telling of the serious condition of Mrs. Metzger and 
that there was practically no hope of her recovery.  For some three weeks she 
has been in the hospital in Los Angeles, Cal., and constantly by her bedside 
were her daughter Frances, her sister, Mrs. Snyder, and her niece.  In 
addition to these near relatives, the little colony of Lima-ites who are in 
Los Angeles, had made arrangements that each day one of them would visit the 
hospital and remain with the invalid for an hour.  In this way the last days 
of Mrs. Metzger’s were as full of happiness as it was possible to make them, 
and though she must have suffered much, her friends did everything in their 
power to alleviate that suffering.

Mrs. Metzger was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Cunningham and was born in 
this city sixty-three years ago.  She was married when only seventeen, to Dr. 
Charles Metzger, and spent her later life here, where she was known and loved 
by a wide circle of friends.  She has traveled much and was widely read, as 
well.  Cultured and refined, she was a splendid conversationalist and knew how 
to tell others the many things she knew.

Two children, both daughters, survive her, the younger daughter, Miss Frances, 
being with her at the time of her death, and the other, Dora, Baroness 
Patterson, residing in the far-off capital of Portugal, Lisbon.  About 
eighteen months ago Mrs. Metzger paid a long visit to the latter and had 
intended going to California soon after her return to this country.  The trip 
was delayed until the latter part of November, however, when on account of her 
health, it became imperative that something be done and she departed, the 
western climate having greatly helped her before.  Her health did not improve 
this time as hoped for, and she declined until her entrance to the hospital a 
few weeks ago was followed by the death yesterday.

The brother mentioned above, Mr. E. B. Cunningham, two cousins, Mrs. O. W. 
Smith and Mrs. Mary Hall, and all the later Cunningham connection are 
relatives.

It is not possible to make any announcement whatever in regard to the funeral 
arrangements, but these will be given to the public as soon as the remains 
arrive in the city."


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