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Marietta Elizabeth <I>Coffing</I> Weller

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Marietta Elizabeth Coffing Weller

Birth
Macy, Miami County, Indiana, USA
Death
2 Nov 1960 (aged 77)
Marion, Grant County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 14, Row 6
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Marietta Elizabeth, the daughter of Joshua Potts Coffing and Jane Rigel (Lichty), had five sisters, Mary Ellen, Pearl May (Wagoner), Hattie Belle, Ethel Ruth, and Grace (Shadel); three brothers, Joshua D., Ralph Waldo, and Jacob Russel; and five Lichty half sisters, Ida B., Anna, Ada May (Kingston), Ella and Almeda (Shaffer).

Elizabeth married Harry H, Weller, 10 Sep 1898, in Peru, IN. They had eight children, Mildred Marie (Zimmerman), Ruth Elizabeth (Guyer), Bernice Irene (Zartman Pass Shelton), Helen Leah (Talbott Irvine), Alice Loreen (Nickell), Ida May (Heckathorn), John H. Robert and Harry Joshua Jr.
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Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Thursday, November 3, 1960

Services will be conducted at the Raven Funeral Home in Marion at 10 a.m. CST Friday for Mrs. Marietta Elizabeth Weller, 77, Sweetzer, who died at the Marion General Hospital at 3:10 p.m. Wednesday (November 2, 1960) after an illness of three weeks. Mrs. Weller had lived in Sweetzer since 1945 and was a former resident of Marion and Swayzee.

She was born Feb. 8, 1883, in Macy to Joshua and Jane Rigle Coffing. Mrs. Weller was a member of the Macy Christian church and the Sweetzer Home Demonstration club. Surviving are the husband, Harry Weller, Sweetzer; six daughters, Mrs. Mildred Zimmerman, Denver; Mrs. Ruth Guyer, near Rochester; Mrs. Bernice Pass, Rochester; Mrs. Helen Talbott, Rochester; Mrs. Lorene Nichols, Rochester; and Mrs. May Heckathorn, Rochester; two sons, John Robert of Ohio and Harry, Jr., Swayzee; one brother, Russel Coffing, Fulton; one sister, Grace Shadle, Macy; two half-sisters, Mrs. E. M. Shaffer, Kokomo and Mrs. Ida Lichty, Cleveland, and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The Rev. Ruth Drake of the Sweetzer Wesleyan Methodist church will officiate at the services, and burial will be made at the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery with graveside rites set for 1 p.m. CST. Friends may call at the Raven Funeral Home, 911 South Washington street, Marion, after 3 p.m. Thursday.
Marietta Elizabeth, the daughter of Joshua Potts Coffing and Jane Rigel (Lichty), had five sisters, Mary Ellen, Pearl May (Wagoner), Hattie Belle, Ethel Ruth, and Grace (Shadel); three brothers, Joshua D., Ralph Waldo, and Jacob Russel; and five Lichty half sisters, Ida B., Anna, Ada May (Kingston), Ella and Almeda (Shaffer).

Elizabeth married Harry H, Weller, 10 Sep 1898, in Peru, IN. They had eight children, Mildred Marie (Zimmerman), Ruth Elizabeth (Guyer), Bernice Irene (Zartman Pass Shelton), Helen Leah (Talbott Irvine), Alice Loreen (Nickell), Ida May (Heckathorn), John H. Robert and Harry Joshua Jr.
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Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Thursday, November 3, 1960

Services will be conducted at the Raven Funeral Home in Marion at 10 a.m. CST Friday for Mrs. Marietta Elizabeth Weller, 77, Sweetzer, who died at the Marion General Hospital at 3:10 p.m. Wednesday (November 2, 1960) after an illness of three weeks. Mrs. Weller had lived in Sweetzer since 1945 and was a former resident of Marion and Swayzee.

She was born Feb. 8, 1883, in Macy to Joshua and Jane Rigle Coffing. Mrs. Weller was a member of the Macy Christian church and the Sweetzer Home Demonstration club. Surviving are the husband, Harry Weller, Sweetzer; six daughters, Mrs. Mildred Zimmerman, Denver; Mrs. Ruth Guyer, near Rochester; Mrs. Bernice Pass, Rochester; Mrs. Helen Talbott, Rochester; Mrs. Lorene Nichols, Rochester; and Mrs. May Heckathorn, Rochester; two sons, John Robert of Ohio and Harry, Jr., Swayzee; one brother, Russel Coffing, Fulton; one sister, Grace Shadle, Macy; two half-sisters, Mrs. E. M. Shaffer, Kokomo and Mrs. Ida Lichty, Cleveland, and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The Rev. Ruth Drake of the Sweetzer Wesleyan Methodist church will officiate at the services, and burial will be made at the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery with graveside rites set for 1 p.m. CST. Friends may call at the Raven Funeral Home, 911 South Washington street, Marion, after 3 p.m. Thursday.


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