Mrs.
Rose Beckett
Delhi: Death has
claimed one of the oldest and best-known citizens of Delhi in the
person of Mrs. Rose Beckett, who after about three weeks illness
passed peacefully away at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Nathan Pettit, King Street, on Sunday,
9 Sep 1934, in her 81st year.
Born in Marlette, Mich., 23
Aug 1854, of U.E.L. parentage, she was the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. John Messecar. At the age of seven years she and the
family came to Fredericksburg, now Delhi.
Her husband, the late Jos.
Beckett predeceased her in 1920.
She is survived by two
daughters:
Mrs. Nathan Pettit of Delhi, and
Mrs. Albert Schott of Ridgetown;
three sons: Stanley of Simcoe,
William of Kingsville, and John of Wallaceburg; and two
brothers:
Jim Messecar of Marlette, Mich.,
and Bert Messecar of Kingsville.
Funeral service will be
held on Wednesday at 2.30 o'clock from her daughter's residence on
King Street.
