1916
Nancy
2011
Nancy Hotchkiss Mettler
May 23, 1916 — April 3, 2011
Nancy Hotchkiss Mettler, who would have been 95 on May 23, died peacefully at home on Sunday April 3, 2011.
A life resident of Akron, she gradated from Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. in 1938, with a B.S. from The Ohio State University in 1940 and from Western Reserve University with a M.A. in 1946.
She started her teaching career in 1941 at Akron's Central High School where she taught until 1963. She retired from Firestone High School where she taught from 1963 to 1976. She was awarded a Martha Holden Jennings Fellowship in 1975.
Miss Mettler was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church where she served on the Vestry, the Altar Guild, and was a founding member of the Needlework Guild. She served as a Chalice Bearer and Lay Reader. A former member of the Akron Woman's City Club, she was also an active member of the Akron DAR, and retired teachers' associations.
At various stages of her life she did volunteer work for the Girl Scouts, YWCA, League of Women Voters, Weathervane Theater, St. Paul's Church and Children's Hospital. She found cats ``very satisfactory' and lived with one to three all the years of her life.
Miss Mettler was preceded in death by her parents, William M. and Harriet Hotchkiss Mettler; by her brothers, William M. Mettler, Jr. and John H. Mettler; her sisters, Margaret Richard Schnorf and Belle E.; and her nephew, Charles Schnorf. She is survived by her sister, Mary A. of San Francisco; her niece, Gretchen of Cleveland Hts., and six other nieces and six nephews.
Private inurnment will take place at Glendale Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1361 W. market St., Akron 44313 or to the Humane Society of Greater Akron, 7996 Darrow Rd., Twinsburg 44087.
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A life resident of Akron, she gradated from Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. in 1938, with a B.S. from The Ohio State University in 1940 and from Western Reserve University with a M.A. in 1946.
She started her teaching career in 1941 at Akron's Central High School where she taught until 1963. She retired from Firestone High School where she taught from 1963 to 1976. She was awarded a Martha Holden Jennings Fellowship in 1975.
Miss Mettler was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church where she served on the Vestry, the Altar Guild, and was a founding member of the Needlework Guild. She served as a Chalice Bearer and Lay Reader. A former member of the Akron Woman's City Club, she was also an active member of the Akron DAR, and retired teachers' associations.
At various stages of her life she did volunteer work for the Girl Scouts, YWCA, League of Women Voters, Weathervane Theater, St. Paul's Church and Children's Hospital. She found cats ``very satisfactory' and lived with one to three all the years of her life.
Miss Mettler was preceded in death by her parents, William M. and Harriet Hotchkiss Mettler; by her brothers, William M. Mettler, Jr. and John H. Mettler; her sisters, Margaret Richard Schnorf and Belle E.; and her nephew, Charles Schnorf. She is survived by her sister, Mary A. of San Francisco; her niece, Gretchen of Cleveland Hts., and six other nieces and six nephews.
Private inurnment will take place at Glendale Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1361 W. market St., Akron 44313 or to the Humane Society of Greater Akron, 7996 Darrow Rd., Twinsburg 44087.
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