Rebecca Messer

Mrs. Messer

Rites Slated

    Pineville - Funerla services, for Mrs. Rebecca Messer, 100, of Middlesboro, will be conducted at Durham Funeral Home Chapel at 2 p.m. today.

    The lady was born Jul 27, 1863 and celebrated her 100th birthday last summer. One family bible had her age at 108.

    She outlived eight of her 12 children. She is survived by 26 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great grandchildren.

    Mrs. Messer died Sunday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Napier, in Dunlap Hollow, Noe Town.

December 1963