OBIT: Mary E. (NEPPER) WERTZ, 1931, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. MARY ELLEN WERTZ,

Wife of Samuel C. Wertz of 419 East Harrison avenue, died at her home 
of a complication of diseases resulting from a fracture of the hip 
received on Nov. 4.  Daughter of Charles and Hannah McCarl Nepper.   
Born at Royer, Oct. 15, 1850.  Married to Samuel C. Wertz, Feb. 1, 
1871.  Member of the Lutheran church all her life, belonging for many 
years to the First Lutheran church, the Woman's Missionary society; the 
Brenneman Bible class and the Ladies Aid society. Surviving are her 
husband, daughter Mrs. Lutie Sissler, son Charles Wertz and daughter 
Mrs. A. C. Tauber, Altoona: four grandchildren, Mrs. Fred Keith and 
Earl Wertz, Altoona; Donald Sissler and Mrs. Francis Shugert, 
Phoenixville; two great-grandchildren, Martha Virginia Sissler and 
Richard Shugert.  A son, Homer, died in childhood.  She was one of a 
family of thirteen children, of whom four brothers and four sisters 
survive: Alex Nepper, Tyrone; Mrs. Henrietta Lykens, Newry; Mrs. Sarah 
Brumbaugh, Aitch; Joseph Nepper, Altoona; Ernest Nepper, Conemaugh; 
Mrs. Fannie Mosel, Hollidaysburg; Mrs. Vene Isenberg, Williamsburg; 
Charles Edward Nepper, Cleveland, O.  Funeral services were held her 
home this afternoon with Rev. M. J. Kline, D.D., officiating, assisted 
by Rev. J. T. Farnsworth.  Interment was made in Greenwood cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., November 23, 1931 

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