Margaret C. Maelzer, 89, of Denver, Colorado, formerly of Seneca and Sabetha, Kansas, died Thursday, November 9, 1995 after being hospitalized in Denver.

She was born October 16, 1906 near Thayer, in Neosho County, Kansas, the daughter of Harvey and Eva Wright Fraser. In 1916 her family moved to a family in Wilson County, Kansas where she attended rural grade school and graduated from Altoona High School in 1926. She then attended Stickler’s Business College in Independence, Kansas and worked for National Oil and Gas Supply Company.

On September 14, 1928 she married Clarence Maelzer in Altoona, Kansas. They lived in the Centralia, Kansas area for 12 years and then moved to a farm five miles south of Sabetha.

Margaret and Clarence retired and moved into Seneca in 1966. Clarence preceded her in death on June 9, 1986. Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Neva Funderburgh on March 24, 1989.

She was a member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Seneca, the Women’s Followship at the church, and a former member of the Congregational Church in Sabetha. She was also a member of the Iris Chapter #357 of the Eastern Star, the Nemaha County Historical Society, the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital Guild, and was a volunteer in the hospital gift shop. In her younger years while living on a farm, she was active in 4-H Clubs.

Survivors include a daughter, Shirley Scott of Denver; a brother, Wayne Christie Fraser of Wichita, Kansas; a sister, Beulah E. Anderson of Tulsa, Oklahoma; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

A funeral service was held on Monday at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Seneca, officiated by Rev. Charles Aeschliman. Organist was Barb Vitt. Burial was in the Centralia Cemetery. Pallbearers were Dick Funderburgh, Darwin Olson, Michael Huber, Richard Lohmann, Melvin Gustin and David Calderwood.

Lauer Funeral Home was in charge of Kansas arrangements.