Found Dead in Bed By Her Son
Mrs. Matilda Ricket Passed Peacefully Away at Her Home at Mermill Sunday Morning
Interment at Portage Cemetery
Mrs. Matilda Ricket was found dead in bed at her home in Mermill Sunday morning when her son, John, returned from work in Bowling Green. The son had fuild the fires and when she failed to get up after being called he investigated and found her lifeless body. Death was due to heart trouble from which she passed peacefully away. Mrs. Ricket had apparently been in good health the day before and had visited the neighbors.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock at the Methodist church at Portage. Rev. S. M. Cook, of Mungen, will officiate and interment will be made at the Portage cemetery.
Miss Matilda Scott was born two miles east of Portage and would have been seventy eight years old on the 4th day of next April. She had spent all of her life in Wood county with the exception of five years in Michigan. She was united in marriage before the Civil War to Henry Long, who died in the great struggle between the north and south. Three children were born to this union and they have preceded the mother to the grave.
A half century ago, she was married to Nathan Ricket who passed away seventeen years ago. Six children were born as a result of this union, two dying in infancy. The four children surviving are: Mrs. Charles Sines, of Mermill; Ralph Ricket, of Bowling Green; Frank Ricket, east of Bowling Green, and John Ricket, of Mermill. Three sisters, Mrs. Cynthia Wheeler, of Toledo; Mrs. Samuel Shroyer, of Weston, and Mrs. Sarah Royce, of Norwalk, also survive.
Mrs. Ricket had endeared her way into the hearts of many with her kindly disposition and ever helpful manner towards doing good for others. She was a kind neighbor and mother and her death leaves a place in the community that can never be filled. Her life on earth has been a bountiful one and she passed to the beyond as peacefully as she had lived.
Daily Sentinel Tribune, Bowling Green Ohio, 4 Feb. 1918