WINCHESTER – Funeral services were held this afternoon at 1 o’clock in the FIrst Baptist Church for
Mrs. Belle (Wilder) Marchant, 75, wife of Arthur J. Marchant, 9 Emerson Road, who died in WInchester Hospital. Rev Alexanderson Henderson officiated and burial was in Gleenwood Cemetery in Ashby.
A resident of this town for 36 years, Mrs. Marchant was born in Fichtburg, June 14, 1890 a daughter of Edward R. and Jennie (Brooks) Wilder and was educated in the Ashby Schools. She was an organist much of her life, first as organist in the Baptist and Congregational Churches in Fichtburg then in Somerville for the Baptist Church. She was also organist of the Winchester Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star of which she was an active member.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Shirley E. Alger of West Acton; a son, Donald, of Stoneham; five grandchildren and a sister Miss Helen G. Wilder of Framingham.
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