Tawas Herald, Tawas City, Michigan,

August, 1954

Funeral Services Held Tuesday for Mrs. F. Humberger

East Tawas –Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle May Humberger, 61, were held Tuesday afternoon from the Methodist church at East Tawas.

The Rev. Ben Whaley and the Rev. L. Wayne Smith, former East Tawas pastor, officiated.

Following the services, which were in charge of the Evans funeral chapel, the body was taken to Troy, Ohio, for burial in Riverside cemetery. Committal services were held at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday.

Mrs. Humburger's death came at 6:00 p.m. Sunday at Mercy Hospital, Bay City, where she had been a patient for the past three months. Her death followed an illness of some six years of leukemia.

Myrtle May McDowell, the daughter of the late Frank and Rose McDowell, was born at Troy, Ohio, May 9, 1893. She attended the Sprague School of Music, at Dayton, Ohio, where she studied vocal and instrumental music. As a member and soloist of the 50 voice choir of the First Methodist Church at Troy, she met and married its director, Frank L. Humberger, then director of music in the Troy Schools, on June 11, 1912.

The Humbergers built their cottage on Lake Huron north of East Tawas in 1938. Five years later Mr. Humberger retired at Troy and they came to East Tawas, where he became director of the East Tawas, later Tawas Area, school band and music department.

Mrs. Humberger was an active worker in the East Tawas Methodist church. She directed the senior choir, organized a junior choir, and was instrumental in the presentation of Handel's oratorio, "The Messiah," by a community chorus, for several years.

A past president of the federated Altrurian Club in Troy, she was also a member of the East Tawas Ladies Literary Club as long as her health permitted.

Surviving besides her husband are two children, Frank E., of Gates Mill, Ohio, and Mrs. Marie May Sherman of Alamogordo, N. Mex., and four grandchildren.

Note, died August 26