The Courier-News/1958/Charles H. Fetterly, Bound Brook Ex-Mayor

Charles H. Fetterly, Bound Brook Ex-Mayor.

Bound Brook, New Jersey. Charles H. Fetterly, 79, former mayor of Bound Brook, died early today (May 22, 1958) in Bound Brook Hospital. He had undergone amputation of his left leg there on April 25. Mr. Fetterly, who resided at 14 E. Maple St., served as mayor from 1920-1932, and again from 1938 to 1950. He had earlier served as a councilman for six years. At his retirement he was honored at a testimonial dinner in the Bound Brook Elks Club. Mr. Fetterly had been associated with the real estate and insurance firm of Fetterly-Haelig Co., this borough, since 1931. The former mayor, a Republican, had taken a prominent part in Somerset County affairs. He had served as president of the Raritan Valley Municipal League and a member of the executive board of the State League of Municipalities; as president of the Somerset County Real Estate Board, and as its representative on the special tax rate limitation committee of the New Jersey Society of Realtors. On Flood Group. Long an advocate of improving flood controls in the Green Brook Watershed, he had served as chairman of the Green Brook Flood Control Commission which sought corrective measures for flood control along Green Brook in Middlesex, Somerset and Union Counties for many years. In September, 1957, he was appointed one of five appraisers for the Watchung rotary road improvement projects. In Spanish-American War. Mr. Fetterly was born in Ogdensburg, New York. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and a graduate of the Columbia University College of Pharmacy. Although he had not been in pharmaceutical work since 1931, he had retained his registered pharmacist's license. He was an active Mason, being associated with Solomon s Lodge, F and AM, the Royal Arch Chapter and So-Ra-Bo Forest 48, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, all of Somerville, the Knights Templar Commandery, the Consistory of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and of Salaam Temple, AAONMS, Newark. Hospital Board President. He was also president of the board of the Bound Brook Hospital, a life member of Bound Brook Lodge 1388, BPO Elks, and a member of the Bound Brook Rotary Club, the Bound Brook Presbyterian Church and United Spanish War Veterans, Queen City Camp 21, Plainfield. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Louise Brokaw Fetterly; two daughters, Mrs. Harold M. Brummer of Hadlyme, Connecticut, and Mrs. J. E. Wilkes of Walnut Creek, Calif., and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday in the Bound Brook Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Earl Davidson, associate minister, officiating. Private interment will follow in the New Cemetery, Somerville. Friends may call at the Taggart-Chamberlain Funeral Home tomorrow evening.