Obit: Chatterson, Margaret (1905 – 1967)

Contact: Audrey Roedl

Surnames: Chatterson, Pratt

----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark County, WI)

Mrs. Leonard (Margaret Pratt) Chatterson, a retired missionary to Africa died Sunday at Westminister Gardens, a home for retired missionaries of the United Presbyterian Church in U.S.A. in Duarte, California, She was 62 years of age.

She and her missionary husband had resided in California since July of this year. She had been in ill health for several years and death was due to a stroke suffered last month.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, October 12 at 2 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church in Beaver Dam.

The Chattersons were located for many years at the American Presbyterian Mission In Yaounda in Cameroun, French West Africa, and for a time was stationed at Elat in the Camerourns, where Mr. Chatterson served as treasurer for the entire mission area.

They served in Africa until the late 1950’s when they located in New York, where Mr. Chatterson held a business position with an inter-church group.

Mrs. Chatterson and their son lived in Marshfield during World War 11, when women and children were forced to leave the Camerouns. While in Marshfield she served as office secretary for the First Presbyterian Church and was known widely as a speaker. Later on she was a secretary and director of religious education at Neenah.

Mrs. Chatterson was the former Margaret Pratt, was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. R. Pratt of Loyal.

Mrs. Chatterson was a member of the Marshfield Chapter AJ of the PEO Sisterhood, and held nonresident member status at the tome of her death.

Survivors include her husband; a son, Robert, Beaver Dam; two sisters, Mrs. Rachel Jess, Madison, and Mrs. Calvin Prior, Greenwood; a brother, Sherrin Pratt, Union Grove; and two grandchildren.