Milford chronicle., 1955-07-22
OBITUARY
MARKERT

master of Temple Lodge 9, A. F. &
A. NJ, died last Friday night in
Milford Memorial Hospital. He
lived on North Walnut Street, Mil
ford.
originally from Pennsylvania. he
lived most of his life in Harring-
ton. He retired nine years ago as
signal foreman with the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad and moved to Mill
ford from Ridgeway, Pa, where
he had lived 13 years after leav-
ing Harrington.
Mr.. Markert was a member OF
Temple Lodge and the Delaware
Consistory and belonged to the
Odd Fellows Lodge in Harrington
and Avenue Methodist Church
here
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Signe Markert; three daughters,
Mrs. Byron, Gibson, Milford, and
the Misses Irene and Dorothy E.
Markcrt, both of Newark; son,
Leander G. Markert, Jr., Coinjock,
N. c.; a sister, Mrs. Ella Shumac,
Erie Pa; two brothers, Henry, of
Rasselas, Pa, and Lawrence OF
Dearborn, Mich, and five grand
children.
The Rev. DR.. Robert Green, pas
tor of Avenue Church officiated at
funeral services in the Berry Fun
eral Home at 2 p. M, Monday
with interment in Odd Fellows
Cemetery, Milford.
COvERDALE
Walter C. Coverdale, ", died
early Friday morning at the home
of his son and daughter-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Coverdale near
Greenwood. He was the son of the
late Samuel Susan Coverdale.
Born in Frederick, he married
the former Miss Gertrude Harring-
ton and they lived on farm near
Milford until her death in 1912.
Then he moved to Oak Orchard
staying there until he went to
live with his son.
In addition to his son he is
survived by a daughter Mrs. Ger
trude C. Diehl, Norristown, Pa.
four grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
Services were held Sunday, July
II, at 2 D. M, in the Boyer Fun
eral Home, Harrington. Interment
Barratt's Chapel Cemetery, near
Frederick.
VOGL
John Anthony Vogl. 70, husband
of Wilhelmina Vogl. died last Fri
day morning at his home near Mas
tens Corner, after brief illness.
Born in Czechoslovokia, Mr.. Vogl
lived near Masten's Corner dur
ing the past AZ years becoming a
prominent dairy farmer.
Surviving beside his wife are
10 children: Ernest, Alexander, Mrs.
Elsie Rouse, and ,Alphonzo, all of
Harrington; Mrs. Wilhelmina Mes
sina, Felix, Oswald and Levi, all of
Dover; Otto, of Lewes, and Mrs.
Frieda Wildanger, of Red Bank,
N. j.; also 19 grandchildren.
Requiem Mass was said at 10
a. m., Monday at st. Bernadette
Church, Harrington, with the Rev.
John A. Corrigan officiating. In
terment was in Hollywood Gene
terry. The Rosary was recited at
the ]. Millard Cooper Funeral
Home, 110 E. Center Street, Har-
rington, Sunday evening at 8
o'clock.
MYRER
Funeral services for Norman
Myrer, SO, husband of Marie
Olive Myrer, of ZIG Harring-
ton Avenue, were held from the ].
Millard Cooper Funeral Home, 11O
E. Center Street, Harrington, We'd
nesday morning, July 20, at 10
a. m. The Rev. Robert E. Van
Cleaf, pastor of Asbury Methodist
Church, .ofiiciated. Interment was
Thursday in Mt. Hope Cemetery,
Boston, Mass.
Mr. Myrer died suddenly Sunday
evening at his home of a heart
attack. Born in Nova Scotia, he
had resided here for the past four
years training horses at the Kent
and Sussex Raceway.
Surviving beside his wife are two
children, Mrs. Virginia Foster, of
Haverhill, Mass, and Harlow My
rer, of Hamburg, N. Y; three sis
ters, Miss Isabelle Myrer, Boston.
Mrs. Margaret HI. Hutchinson, of
Dartmouth. Nova Scotia, and Miss
Florence Jane Myrer, of Boston,
4 II.