Emma Lenzner

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Cass City Chronicle
Friday, January 12, 1945
Vol. 39, No. 39
Page One

Miss Emma Lenzner Died at Her Home Here Sunday Morning

Miss Emma Lenzner passed away at her home in Cass City early Sunday morning after an illness of several months. She was 81 years of age.

Born in Lancaster, N.Y., June 28, 1863, she came to Cass City with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. C.O. Lenzner, Sr., at the age of ten years and has lived here since that time. She was the only daughter and the last of the five children of this pioneer family to depart from this life.

In young womanhood, she started a dressmaking establishment in Cass City and for many years followed that occupation.

Funeral services were conducted at the Munro funeral home Tuesday afternoon by Rev. M.R. Vender, pastor of the Presbyterian church of which Miss Lenzner was a member for 50 years. Interment was made in Elkland cemtery.

Miss Lenzner leaves two nieces, Miss Gladys Lenzner of Cass City and Mrs. Edgar Braung of Detroit, and three nephews, Dr. Grey Lenzner of Bad Axe, Col. D. S. Lenzner of Fort Monroe, Va., and H.F. Lenzner of Cass City.

Relatives and friends who came from a distance to attend the funeral included Dr. and Mrs. Grey Lenzner of Bad Axe, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Braun of Detroit, Mrs. Roy LaFave, Mrs. Geo. Purdy, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Simmons, all of Gagetown, and the Missed Jean and Catherine Hutson of Snover.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, January 2008)