ERIE-----Mrs Alvin (Merle) Yarger, 75, of 1155 E. Rauch Rd, died at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Toledo Hospital, Toledo, where he had been since Thursday. She had been in poor health for four years. Friends may call after 7 p.m. Sunday and until 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Capaul funeral Home, Ida. She will lie in state from 1 p.m. until services at 2 Tuesday in the First Baptist Church, Temperance, of which she was a member. The Rev. Robert Wisehart will officiaste and burial will be in the Lambertville Cemetery, Lambertville. Born Jan 13, 1906 in Samaria, she was the daughter of Irwin and Maysie (Elliott) Brunt. She married Alvin Yarger July 22, 1926 in her parents' home in Samaria.

She was employed by the Monroe County Farm Bureau Center, Ida, as a secretary from 1954 until 1956. She was an acrive member of the LaSalle Women's Christian Temperance Union and a member of the Retiree Group at the First Baptist Church, Temperance. She is survived by her husband, 4 sons, Richard of Kalamazoo, Lowell of Toledo, Paul of Osseo and Marvin of Jackson, 3 brothers, Kenneth Brunt of Monroe and Earl and Clare Brunt, both of Temperance, a sister, Mrs Richard (Ruth) Jones of Ida, and 13 grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a brother, Ellis Brunt. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church.