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Death Certificate Anna M Fechter Middletown 1962 Cert 056664-62
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Transcription
Local reg. no. "254"; primary district "23940-239"; certificate "056664-62." Death in Delaware County, Middletown township, at "Fair Acres Farm" (county institution); mailing address "Fair Acres Farm, Lima, Pa." Veteran: no. "Anna M Fechter." Died "6/6/62." Lived in Middletown township, Delaware County, Pa. Female, white, "Widowed." Born "10/5/1868"; age "93." Usual occupation "Housewife." Social security "None." Birthplace "Pa." Citizen of "USA." Spouse "Charles Fechter." Mother's maiden name "Louise Seeger." Father's name "Nicholas Boentgen." Informant "Carl W. Fechter," address "5[0?] So. Chesterlife [Chesterville?] Rd., Glenolden, Pa." Cause: "Congestive heart failure," due to "Hypertensive cardio-vascular disease"; other conditions "Osteoporosis, old fracture of Rt Hip." No autopsy. Physician's signature illegible, Chester, Pa., signed 6/6/62; death at "3:35 A.M." Burial 9 June 1962, Northwood Cemetery, Philadelphia. Funeral director "E. B. McCausland [?], Glenolden, Pa." Received 6/7/62, Helen H. Harvey, registrar.
Plain reading
Anna M. Fechter, widow of Charles Fechter, born 5 October 1868 in Pennsylvania to Nicholas Boentgen and Louise Seeger, died at 93 on 6 June 1962 at Fair Acres Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County; buried at Northwood Cemetery, Philadelphia, 9 June 1962; informant Carl W. Fechter (son, probably; not stated).
Notes
STATED for her parents, Nicholas Boentgen and Louise Seeger (informant Carl W. Fechter). PROBABLE that she is Anna M. Boentgen who married Fechter in 1889 (license 29282): the name pair and spouse Charles Fechter fit, and the father Nicholas Boentgen is the 1860–1880 Philadelphia head of household (PW5.11, PW5.12). That places her in Nicholas Boentgen's family; she is a sister of William A. Boentgen (1866–1899), the first husband of Emma Caroline Wesemann, if William A. is Nicholas's son (not yet proven; the 1870 household read in PW5.11 is the test).
Conflicts noted: (1) Her mother's name "Louise Seeger"; PW5.11 reads the 1870 household for the wife's name (compare there; this entry is not compared further here). (2) Birth 5 October 1868 against the 1870 census age (compare in PW5.11).