This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#95245) Dr. Minerva Wertz 1869-1944 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/clayton/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=95245> AUTHOR: S. Ferrall DATE: 1/24/2006 at 09:27:25 Surnames: WERTZ,PORTER Strawberry Point - Prayer services were held here Friday for Dr. Minerva Porter Wertz, 75, who died at Spencer Wednesday; born July 8, 1869, at Strawberry Point, daughter of John and Lucinda Porter; married to Dr. J.B. Wertz in 1900; they went to Spencer, where they practiced medicine together until her husband's death in February, 1940; Mrs. Wertz had been ill since February; leaves a brother, Alex Porter, Strawberry Point. -source: Waterloo Daily Courier, September 15, 1944 -submitter is not related & has no further information