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Note: o and Ysleta resident, Mrs. Metzger fought a valiant three month battle with stomach cancer at home and Sun Towers Hospital.
Born Catherine Amelia Gehring to Ida Catherine Boysen and Werther Edward Gehring, she was Christened on November 5, 1916 in the First German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Galveston, Texas. In attendance were grandparents Boy Stephanus and Mette Catherine Boysen from Brownwood, Texas and Grandmother Amelia Leverkuhn Stevens and great grandmother Friedericke Bode Leverkuhn from Houston, Texas. The event marked the union of two large first generation Danish and German immigrant families, the Boysens of Brownwood and the Leverkuhns of Houston. Grandfather Herman Friederick Gehring preceded her 1897 and great grandfather Fritz Leverkuhn 1914.
The family lived in Galveston and later 5307 La Branch Street in Houston until her father suddenly died in 1919 in the Houston influenza pandemic. Mother and daughter moved back to the family home at 403 East Lee Street in Brownwood until 1926, when she moved with her mother and step father Charles Harrison Lawrence (106213965) to their Ysleta farm at 9634 Socorro Road. She remained a resident of Ysleta and El Paso for the next 40 years, graduating Ysleta High School in 1934 and attending Texas Western College. Following high school, she worked for Mountain States Telephone Company as a Comptometer Operator. She met her husband Russell Metzger, a soldier training at Ft Bliss, Texas, and they married on May 2, 1942. The couple lived at 1311 Montana Street and 8084 Starr Blvd. before moving to their current residence.
Mrs. Metzger was program chairman and founding member of the Texas Delta Epsilon chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, a service sorority committed to helping WWII soldiers. She was a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church and Ft. Bliss Officer's Wives club.
Surviving are husband, Russell Metzger of El Paso; mother, Catherine B. Lawrence of Ysleta; two daughters, Patti Ann Coffman of Bakersfield, California, and Carol Lee Cobb of El Paso; son, Stephen Lawrence Metzger of San Antonio, Texas; six grandchildren; and thirteen great grandchildren.
Services will be held 11:00 a.m. Tuesday in St. Christopher's Episcopal Church with Dr. Kenneth Rice officiating. Pallbearers: Henry McDannell, Arthur J. East, Chester B. Thompson, H.A. Howard, Harold Stinnett, Alfred H. McGill. Burial in Restlawn Memorial Park. Arrangements by Kaster and Maxon Downtown Chapel, 201 E. Yandell.
Note: Obituary: EL PASO, Texas 1966—Family and friends were saddened today at the untimely death of Mrs. Catherine A. Metzger, 49, of 216 Smith Lane. A devoted parent, loving spouse and long time El Pas
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