COLLYER, Margaret Pearl - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Source: Unknown newspaper - article found in scrapbook of obituaries collected by Fauniel Hershberger, - typed by: GA

Margaret P. Collyer, 86, died at the Oddfellows Home in Greensburg, Ind., Saturday (Oct. 7, 1967). Born near Odell, Ind., on August 17, 1881, she was the daughter of Francis and Catherine Van Dame Pearl. She was married to Thad Collyer who preceded her in death. Mrs. Collyer had farmed with her husband near Attica. She was a past manager of the Harrison Hills Country Club and had operated a rooming house in Lebanon. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Neese of Zionsville; four brothers, John and Frank Pearl, both of Attica, Joseph of Lebanon and George of Rocky Ford, Colo., a sister, Cecilia McIntyre Huntington, a grandson and two great-grandchildren. Funeral was at St. Francis Xavier Church Tuesday with the Rev. Charles Remaklus officiating. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery in Attica with DeSutter in charge.