ZEIGLER, Bertha Blanche - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

COVINGTON — Miss Bertha Blanche Zeigler, 85, died Saturday at 3.20 p.m. in an Evansville hospital. She was born Nov. 12, 1878, in Fountain County to John G. and Mary Lang Zeigler. She was a life resident of Salem and was a member of the Salem Methodist church, where she taught a Sunday School class for several years. She is survived by a brother, Charles Zeigler of Rt. 1 Kingman; two sisters, Mrs. Mabel Frankeberger of Montezuma and Mrs. Pearl Coffing of Rt. 3 Covington and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by two sisters. Services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Bodine and Shelby Funeral Home in Covington. Rev. August Stork will officiate. Friends may call at the funeral home. Burial will be in the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Covington. Source: obituary in a scrapbook from a collection of Fauniel Hershberger's typed by Walt W Miss Bertha Blanche Zeigler, age 85, a native of the Salem community, northeast of Covington, died at 3:20 p.m. Saturday Oct. 24, in the Woodmere State Hospital, Evansville, where she had been a patient 22 years. She was born Nov. 12, 1878, in Troy Township, Fountain County, the daughter of John G. and Mary Lang Zeigler. She was a member of the Salem Methodist Church. Miss Zeigler is survived by: one brother, Charles of Kingman Rt.; two sisters, Mrs. Mabel Frankeberger of Montezuma and Mrs. Pearl Coffing of Covington Rt. 3, several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by two sisters. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Bodine & Shelby Funeral Home, Covington. The Rev. August Stork officiated and burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery. The pallbearers were: Nelson Galloway, Freeman Bilsland, Noel Ward, Robert Galloway, Mack Fairchild and Charley Trott.   --typed by Walt W