Emeline HAMEL

MARION, Ind. -- Emeline (Hamel) Berg died Saturday in Marion after a lengthy illness.Born in Haverhill, Mass., Mrs. Berg moved to British Guiana, now Guyana, in the 1940s with her husband. They served there as missionaries with the Pilgrim Holiness Church for 16 years. After returning to the United States, they pastored churches in Albany, N.Y., Binghamton, N.Y. and on the Onandaga Indian Reservation near Syracuse, N.Y., for both the Pilgrim Holiness and Wesleyan churches.The widow of the Rev. Clifton F. Berg, she leaves her daughter Kathleen L. Spencer and her husband, Bill, of Marion; sons C. David and his wife, Marie, of Santa Rosa, Calif. and Richard L. of Punta Gorda, Fla.; brothers Leroy Hamel and John Hamel, both of Haverhill and Charles Hamel of Fremont, N.H.; sisters Thelma Priano of Haverhill and Jeanette Carlson of Salem, Mass.; 11 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.Memorials may be made to the Wesleyan World Missions, Box 50434, Indianapolis, Ind. 46250 for support of the Bible School in Paramakatoi Indian Village in Guyana, South America.ARRANGEMENTS: Calling hours are Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. with funeral services at 11 a.m. at the Church of the Nazarene, 167 Amesbury Road, Haverhill. Burial will follow in Linwood Cemetery, Haverhill. Paul C. Rogers & Sons Family Funeral Homes, 334 Main St., Haverhill.