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From: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert" <>
Subject: [IADECATU] OBITUARY - ANGELINE (ROBBINS) MATSLER.
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 13:37:42 -0500


Decatur County Journal
August 27, l9l4

MRS. ANGELINE MATSLER was born at Newark, N.J., November 2l, l834, the
daughter of CORNELIUS ROBBINS and ANNA HAUKINSON. She was the youngest
of a family of ten children, three sons and seven daughters. Her death
occurred at Leon, Ia., August 22, l9l4.

In l840 she moved to Ohio, where she was married to JOHN MATSLER, l85l.
With him she moved to Illinois in l853 and to Kansas in l873. There her
husband's death occurred the same year. Two years later, in l875, she
came to Iowa where she continued to make her home until the time of her
death. The deceased united with the Methodist Church in Illinois in
l864, and with the Leon Methodist Church, November 26, l890.

MRS. MATSLER is survived by a sister, MRS. JANE ELLIS, and by five sons
and four daughters: D.W. MATSLER, of Chanute, Kan.; W.H. MATSLER, of
Ironton, Mo.; C.F. MATSLER, of Princeton, Mo.; J.E. MATSLER, of Tolt,
Wash.; S.A. MATSLER, of Los Angeles, Calif.; MRS. TERESA MILLER, of
Marietta, Calif.; MRS. ROSALIE E. DUNKIN, of Ravenna, Neb.; and MRS.
MINNIE B. FULLER, of Hazard, Neb.

The funeral services were held at the Leon M.E. Church on Monday
morning, August 24 at l0 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Guy J. Fansher, the
Pastor, assisted by the Rev. Jas. W. Johnson, Pastor of the Christian
Church. Interment was in the Leon Cemetery. The bereaved ones have the
sympathy of the entire community in their loss of mother and
grandmother.
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