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Viola Ent was born on 16 April 1901 in Franklin, Sussex, New Jersey.¹ She and Alfred Gustav McElroy were married about 1924.¹ She died in March 1977, at age 75, in Phillipsburg, Warren, New Jersey.²

Madeline Doris McElroy was born on 29 August 1924 in Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey.^1,2,3 She and Preston Leroy Templeton were married in 1941 in Franklin, Sussex, New Jersey.⁴ She and William Richard (W. R.) Leers were married on 14 May 1954 in LaGrange County, Indiana.² She died on 18 May 2006, at age 81, in Union, Cass, Michigan.^2,3 She was buried in Rice Cemetery, Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana.⁵

Madeline D. Leers
Aug. 29, 1924 - May 18, 2006

UNION - Madeline D. Leers, 81, died at 9 a.m. Thursday in her home. Survivors include five daughters, Viola Bergeron of Milan, Ind., Paula Rink of Goshen, Alysjane Kidder of Bristol, Darlene Trapp of Elkhart and Terri Bourn of Republic, Mich.; four sons, Preston Templeton Jr., William Leers Jr., and James E. Leers and Gregory Templeton, all of Elkhart; a sister, Bertha L. Templeton of Elkhart; and three brothers, Robert McElroy of Connecticut, Kenneth McElroy and Clarence Stout, both of Phillipsburg, N.J. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Stemm-Lawson-Peterson Funeral Home, Elkhart, where friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today.