An image of the message and address side of a post card mailed from Millersburg Post Office, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1909, and received at Pillow Post Office, Jordan Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. The addressee was Miss Edna Heckert, Pillow Pennsylvania.
The message on the card was from Mabel:
Dear Edna –
Thanks for all the nice cards, it was really a surprise for me, just received twenty-one nice cards, a nice number. We are well at present – hope you are all the same. My parents will not come over for this time, but you are to come over soon.
Mabel
Edna Heckert died on February 9, 1940. Her obituary appeared in a local newspaper at the time of her death:
BERRYSBURG WOMAN PASSED AWAY SUNDAY
Mrs. Edna L. Henninger, age 53 years, of Berrysburg, wife of John F. Henninger, died in the Polyclinic Hospital, Harrisburg, Sunday morning, following an operation to which she had submitted ten days previous.
Mrs. Henninger was a daughter of Riley Heckert and Lucinda [Reitz] Heckert, and was a native of Jordan Township, Northumberland County. She was a member of Salem’s Reformed Church, Berrysburg, and had been a member of the church choir for a number of years.
Survivors are he husband, two step-children, Marlin G. Henninger, Elizabethville R. D., and Miss Loretta Henninger, at home; one brother, Harry D. Heckert of Sunbury, and a sister, Mrs. Lewis J. Kiehl of Lebanon.
Funeral services will be held from the Hoover Funeral Home, Berrysburg, at one o’clock Saturday afternoon, with further services in Salem’s Lutheran and reformed Church, Berrysburg, Rev. A. L. Zechman, pastor of the Lykens Valley Reformed Charge will officiate and interment will be made in St. John’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, Berrysburg.
At this time, it is not known who Mabel was.
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The image of the post card, with message, was found on eBay.
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