Peter Paul Mertes
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 16 April 1918, page 4
A letter was received Monday by Clifford Shields, Newport
patrolman from Charles Wilson Jr. Newport boy, now in France. Wilson states he
saw Charles Slimmer and Peter Mertes, Newport boys, recently.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 10 May 1937, page 2
Funeral services for Peter Mertes, formerly of 217 Walnut street, Bellevue, will be held at the Fred A Erschell & Son funeral home, Newport, Tuesday at 8:30 am with Requiem High Mass at Corpus Christi Church at 9 am. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. He was 46.
Mr. Mertes died Saturday at the Hines Ill. government hospital. He was a World War veteran. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Alta Mertes, HInes Ill. his father, Peter Mertes, Newport; two brothers Joseph Mertes, Newport and Albert Mertes, Cincinnati.