Title: Alden, Myrtle J : Mother Of Elizabeth Goerke (obit.).
Date: 1980-02-19
Source: Plain Dealer
Notes: pg. 08 sec. C
Myrtle Johns Alden, 88, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, died February 16 in Finlay, Ohio, where she had lived with her daughter for the past several years. She was born June 18, 1891, in Salisbury (Pa.) and was the last member of the late R. Scott and Ormanda (Whelfley) Johns family, being preceded in death by ten brothers and sisters, four of these in infancy. Her husband, Joseph Alden, died in 1965. She is survived by a son, William, and a daughter, Betty, wife of Gene Gearke, both of Ohio, also six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, nieces, Dorothy (Johns) Horning, Meyersdale; Myrtle (Johns) Bodes, Meyersdale RD 1; Lillian (Johns) Gilmore, Pasadena, California, and Robert Johns, Salisbury. She resided in Salisbury and taught in the area schools until she moved to Cleveland about 1915. She married in 1917 and lived in Cleveland Heights for more than 60 years. Friends were received at the Bersticker Funeral Home in Toledo. Graveside services were held on the morning of February 20 at the Acacia Park Cemetery, Cleveland. Rev. Donald Lefeler, of the Windbermere Methodist Church where the deceased had been a life long member, officiated. The Republic of Meyersdale, Pa., March 6, 1980
Date: 1980-02-19
Source: Plain Dealer
Notes: pg. 08 sec. C
Myrtle Johns Alden, 88, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, died February 16 in Finlay, Ohio, where she had lived with her daughter for the past several years. She was born June 18, 1891, in Salisbury (Pa.) and was the last member of the late R. Scott and Ormanda (Whelfley) Johns family, being preceded in death by ten brothers and sisters, four of these in infancy. Her husband, Joseph Alden, died in 1965. She is survived by a son, William, and a daughter, Betty, wife of Gene Gearke, both of Ohio, also six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, nieces, Dorothy (Johns) Horning, Meyersdale; Myrtle (Johns) Bodes, Meyersdale RD 1; Lillian (Johns) Gilmore, Pasadena, California, and Robert Johns, Salisbury. She resided in Salisbury and taught in the area schools until she moved to Cleveland about 1915. She married in 1917 and lived in Cleveland Heights for more than 60 years. Friends were received at the Bersticker Funeral Home in Toledo. Graveside services were held on the morning of February 20 at the Acacia Park Cemetery, Cleveland. Rev. Donald Lefeler, of the Windbermere Methodist Church where the deceased had been a life long member, officiated. The Republic of Meyersdale, Pa., March 6, 1980
Title: Alden, Myrtle J : Mother Of Elizabeth Goerke (obit.).
Date: 1980-02-19
Source: Plain Dealer
Notes: pg. 08 sec. C
Myrtle Johns Alden, 88, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, died February 16 in Finlay, Ohio, where she had lived with her daughter for the past several years. She was born June 18, 1891, in Salisbury (Pa.) and was the last member of the late R. Scott and Ormanda (Whelfley) Johns family, being preceded in death by ten brothers and sisters, four of these in infancy. Her husband, Joseph Alden, died in 1965. She is survived by a son, William, and a daughter, Betty, wife of Gene Gearke, both of Ohio, also six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, nieces, Dorothy (Johns) Horning, Meyersdale; Myrtle (Johns) Bodes, Meyersdale RD 1; Lillian (Johns) Gilmore, Pasadena, California, and Robert Johns, Salisbury. She resided in Salisbury and taught in the area schools until she moved to Cleveland about 1915. She married in 1917 and lived in Cleveland Heights for more than 60 years. Friends were received at the Bersticker Funeral Home in Toledo. Graveside services were held on the morning of February 20 at the Acacia Park Cemetery, Cleveland. Rev. Donald Lefeler, of the Windbermere Methodist Church where the deceased had been a life long member, officiated. The Republic of Meyersdale, Pa., March 6, 1980
Date: 1980-02-19
Source: Plain Dealer
Notes: pg. 08 sec. C
Myrtle Johns Alden, 88, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, died February 16 in Finlay, Ohio, where she had lived with her daughter for the past several years. She was born June 18, 1891, in Salisbury (Pa.) and was the last member of the late R. Scott and Ormanda (Whelfley) Johns family, being preceded in death by ten brothers and sisters, four of these in infancy. Her husband, Joseph Alden, died in 1965. She is survived by a son, William, and a daughter, Betty, wife of Gene Gearke, both of Ohio, also six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, nieces, Dorothy (Johns) Horning, Meyersdale; Myrtle (Johns) Bodes, Meyersdale RD 1; Lillian (Johns) Gilmore, Pasadena, California, and Robert Johns, Salisbury. She resided in Salisbury and taught in the area schools until she moved to Cleveland about 1915. She married in 1917 and lived in Cleveland Heights for more than 60 years. Friends were received at the Bersticker Funeral Home in Toledo. Graveside services were held on the morning of February 20 at the Acacia Park Cemetery, Cleveland. Rev. Donald Lefeler, of the Windbermere Methodist Church where the deceased had been a life long member, officiated. The Republic of Meyersdale, Pa., March 6, 1980
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