Pearl Vesta Deck, 87, died Tuesday at Ashland District Hospital. Born Pearl Vesta Alexander, Sept. 7, 1892 at Protection, she married Roscoe Nickell in 1912, at Protection. He died in 1914. She married Robert L. Deck in 1926 at Protection. He died Dec. 27, 1959.

She was a member of the Methodist Church, O.E.S., Rebekah Lodge, all of Protection.

Surviving is her sister, Mrs. Julia Foster, Protection.

Funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday at the church with the Rev. Richard Krenz officiating. Burial will be at Protection Cemetery, friends may call until 9 p.m Thursday and from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Friday at Hatfield-Prusa Funeral Home, Coldwater.

Also see:

Marriage of Roscoe & Pearl (Alexander) Nickell, The Protection Post, August 15, 1912.

ROSCOE NICKELL ACCIDENTALLY KILLED ON HIS CLAIM IN MONTANA
The Protection Post, July 9, 1914.

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