Posted on: Oneida Co. NY Obituaries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/OneidaObits?read=135 Surname: Daly, Metzger, Simkins, Olsen, Neal ------------------------- Utica Daily Press - June 28, 1958 MRS. METZGER, WAS HERKIMER STENOGRAPHER HERKIMER - Mrs. Anna D. Metzger, 72, known to hundreds of Herkimer County residents as the grand jury stenographer, died June 27, 1958 in Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Mrs. Metzgar, who lived at 137 N. Main, had served under District Attorneys Carl Peterson and Albert Schneider as secretary and grand jury stenographer. She was also County Court stenographer under the late County Judge Frank Shall. After graduation from Herkimer High School, Mrs. Metzger attended Utica Business School. For eight years she was secretary for the late Attorney Charles Earl. Mrs. Metzger went into the district attorney's office in 1831 and remained there until her retirement in 1956. She was secretary during a period when Herkimer County had several murders and used to recall that she was awakened in the middle of the night several times to take statements from accused. Anna Daly was born Aug 27, 1885 in East Florence, NY, Oneida County, a daughter of Timothy and Mary Simkins Daly. On Nov 27, 1906 she was married to Frank Metzger. She was a communicant of St. Francis de Sales Church and was a member of its Rosary Society. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Carl Olsen, Westbury, LI and Mrs. Glen Neal, New Hartford; two brothers, James Daly, Mohawk, and Howard Daly, Amsterdam; a grandson and several nieces and nephews. The funeral will be at 9 monday from the burns Funeral Home and at 9"30 am from St. Francis de Sales Church where a requiem high Mass will be celebrated. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. ** note ** This is not my relative, but the obituary was posted on the same page as one of my relatives. Let me know if this is a member of your family ... I posted it for anyone who might like it.