OBIT: John Clarke MATTESON, Rev., 1941, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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JOHN CLARKE MATTESON

Rev. J. Matteson Called By Death
Served As Pastor of Local Methodist Church Some Years Ago

  The Rev. John Clarke Matteson, 2317 Perrysville Avenue, Pittsburgh, died 
Monday soon after entering his second year as pastor of the Perrysville Avenue 
Methodist Church.
  A native of Butler County, he received his master's degree from Washington and 
Jefferson College, where he was graduated in 1908.  He had been a member of the 
Pittsburgh Conference for more than 30 years.  During his college days he was a 
student circuit rider in Washington and Greene Counties, his first charge being 
in Bridgeville, where he was pastor during the erection of the new church.
  Subsequent pastorates included Mt. Lebanon, Meyersdale, West Bridgewater, 
Verona, Wilkinsburg, Apollo, Ambridge and Rochester, from where he went to the 
Perrysville Avenue pulpit in October, 1940.
  Besides his wife, Mrs. Ethel Rosenberry Matteson, he leaves three daughters, 
Mrs. Ruth Deniston, of Spencerville, O.; Mrs. Mary Louise North and Miss Eleanor 
Matteson, of Pittsburgh; a son, Lieut. James Matteson, member of the faculty at 
the University of Illinois; a sister, Miss Pearl Matteson, of Washington, and 
two brothers, N. Floyd Matteson, also of Washington, and Ernest Matteson, of 
Washington, Pa.
  Services were held in the Perrysville Avenue Church at 11 a.m., this Thursday, 
with burial in Allegheny County Memorial Park.

Meyersdale Republican, October 23, 1941