Leckliter, Mary Ellen Mercer

LECKLITER, MERCER

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 1/17/2012 at 13:44:10

Leckliter, Mary Ellen Mercer –
The community was shocked, Thursday, when it was learned that Mrs. Mary Leckliter had died suddenly that noon. She had just finished eating dinner and, as she arose from the table, she fell to the floor and died instantly. It is thought a blood clot affecting the heart, was the cause of her death.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church in charge of the Rev. R.. M. Fagan. Pall bearers were George Cheese, Fred Holben,Frank McGregor, Alfred Gavin, Chas. Gustin and Arlo Richard, all old friends of the family. Burial was made in Walnut Grove cemetery at Corning, in the Mercer family plot.

Obituary
Mary Ellen Mercer Leckliter was the daughter of the late John Cochran Mercer and Mary Ann Murfin Mercer, who were natives of Highland county, Ohio, and pioneers of Lucas county, la. Her father was a resident of Corning and Adams
county for many years before his death, which occurred July 20, 1921. Mrs. Leckliter was born in Lucas county, la., March 18, 1873. There she spent her childhood, joining her father and family at Prescott In 1886 where she resided until 1913 at which time she, and family moved to Lenox.

She was married to Oliver L. Leckliter July 2, 1897 and to them were born three children, Horace Mercer Leckliter of York, Pa., John Glen Leckliter and Helen Leckliter Sluss, both of Lenox.

In 1912 the family moved to Des Moines where they remained seven years and where the husband and father passed away Sept. 3, 1929. In 1932 she again became a resident of Lenox and made her home in the homes of her son, Glen, and daughter, Helen.

At an early age, and while a resident of Prescott, she united with the Methodist church, under the pastorate of the late Rev. Chas. L. Baxter, in which church she has been a faithful and active member through the years, always willing and ready to serve in any capacity. She was also an active member of the M. F. Club of Lenox.

She is survived by her three children, a granddaughter, Mary Ann Sluss and three adopted grandchildren, Mary Magdaline Leckliter, of York, Pa., George Page Leckliter and John Mark Sluss of Lenox; one brother, David N. Mercer of Steamboat Springs, Colo.; and five sisters, Mrs. Horace Carpenter of LaJunta Colo; Mrs. Brightwell, Omaha; Mrs. Chas. A. Baker of Grand Junction, Colo..; Mrs Fred C. Strand of San Gabriel, Calif.; and Mrs. John L. McCarty of Culver City, Calif. A. brother, William W. Mercer, died Jan. 2$,, 1935.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday November 11, 1937