Obituary

  Funeral services for Mrs. Bertha Maynard, 73, of Matherville will be held at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, April 2, 1964, at the Crummy funeral home in Viola and a 9 a.m. in St. Anthony's church in Matherville with the Rev. C. M. Meyer officiating. Burial will be in St. John's cemetery at Viola.
  Mrs. Maynard died Monday afternoon, March 30, 1964, in St. Anthony's hospital where she had been a patient the past six days.
  Mrs. Maynard, the former Bertha Ann Maurer, was born March 22, 1891, in Gilchrist, a daughter of John and Mary Clarke Maurer. She attended Gilchrist schools and was married to Henry Maynard March 8, 1912, in Davenport. He died July 15, 1959.
  She had lived in the Gilchrist and Matherville communities her entire life having been in Matherville the past 50 years. She was a member of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic church and the Altar and Rosary Society of the church.
  Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Vernon Anderson of Matherville, Mrs. Irene Sweeney of Monmouth, Mrs. Sidney Snell of Viola, and Mrs. Ronald Anderson of Goldsboro, N.C.; a stepson, Norman Maynard of Matherville; six grandchildren; a brother Casper Maurer of Port Byron and three sisters, Mrs. Harry Moline of Cable, Mrs. Frank Krivas of San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Willis Teipel of Wonder Lake, Ill.
  She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, a son, a stepdaughter and a sister.
(Aledo Times Record, Wednesday, April 1, 1964, p. 4)