Obit: Mertens, Elva (1891-1983)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Mertens, Kelch, Miller, Stimmer, Glish

----Source: Marshfield News-Herald (13 August 1983)

Mertens, Elva May (4 October 1891-12 August 1983)

WITHEE -- Mrs. Peter J. (Elva May) Mertens, 91, of Withee died Friday at Thorp Care Center.

Services will be Tuesday at Maurina Funeral Home, Owen, the Rev. Richard W. Knapp of the Seventh-day Adventist Church officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Withee. Visitations will be at Maurina Funeral Home.

Mrs. Mertens, the former Elva Kelch, was born October 4, 1891 in Piqua, Ohio. She and Peter J. Mertens were married February 8, 1910 in Milwaukee. They operated a meat market in Withee and her husband also operated Mertens Implement Co. besides farming south of Withee.

A member of Seventh-day Adventist Church, Withee, Mrs. Mertens is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Ellen Miller, Withee; five sons, Joseph of West Allis, Peter L. of Madison, August of Stanley, Eugene of Withee and Kenneth of McFarland; two sisters, Mrs. Ernol Stimmer of Delaware, Ohio, and Mrs. Wilda Glish, Indianapolis, Indiana; 22 grandchildren; and 31 great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her husband October 14, 1957 and by two brothers.