OBIT: Mary Ellen (LENTZ) RINGLER, 1949, native of Somerset County, PA

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MARY ELLEN RINGLER

  Mrs. Mary Ellen Lentz Ringler passed away January 13, 1949, at her home in 
Waterloo, Iowa, at the age of 90 years, five months and 10 days.  She was born 
August 3, 1858, on the Samuel Flickinger farm, later occupied by the Bird 
Brothers, near Meyersdale.  She was the last surviving member of twelve children 
born to the late Jacob and Sarah (Schrock) Lentz.
  Mary Ellen Lentz was married March 15, 1887, to Norman Ringler by the late 
Bishop C. G. Lint in the Meyersdale Church of the Brethren, of which she became 
a member early in life.  After marriage, she changed her church affiliation to 
the St. Paul Reformed Church of which her husband was a member.  After moving to 
Iowa their membership was transferred to the First Brethren Church, Waterloo.
  Mrs. Ringler spent 54 years of her life in the vicinity of Meyersdale.  In 
1911, the family moved to Waterloo, where her husband preceded her in death by 
just one year and 18 days.
  She is survived by four sons, Lloyd of Chicago; Robert, Ernest and Clyde, all 
of Waterloo, and by eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
  Funeral services were conducted in Kearns Funeral Chapel, January 17, at 2 
p.m.  Interment was made in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, January 27, 1949