Velsetta M. Mertz, 85, Homemaker, enjoyed gardening and crocheting

She was born July 16, 1918 in Lorain and had been a resident of Elyria Township for the past seventy-five years.

A 1963 graduate of Clearview High School, she was a charter member of Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Elyria Township, a founding member of the church’s Saint Elizabeth Circle, and a life member of it Altar & Rosary Society.

She was a homemaker and caregiver whose interests included vegetable and flower gardening as well as crocheting.

Survivors include her sons: Harlan “Hal” Mertz of Amherst, and Lynn Mertz of Waukesha, WI; 3 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and her brother: Richard Brady of North Canton.

Mrs. Mertz was preceded in death by her husband: Worth H. Mertz in 1996; by her parents: Patrick and Margaret (nee Bach); daughter-in-law: Kaaren Mertz in 1986; and by a granddaughter: Kristina Mertz in 1969.

Visitation will be Friday from 4-8p.m. in the Gluvna-Shimo-Hromada Funeral Chapel; 3224 Broadway, Lorain, where a rosary will be recited by the officers and members of Saint Vincent de Paul Altar & Rosary Society at 7 p.m. Funeral services will be Saturday beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the funeral chapel and will be followed by her funeral mass at 10 a.m. in Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Church; 41295 North Ridge Road in Elyria Township. The Reverend James Ols, pastor of the parish, will officiate. Burial will follow in Ridge Memorial Park, Amherst Township.