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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1937
Page
6
Interment was conducted for JUS? KIDS in the adjoining cemetery following services at the Presbyterian Church. Burial plans and memorial arrangements were announced by family members.
Mrs Weicksel aged 72 died unexpectedly after slight illness. Rev J Harold Mumper officiated at church service and interment at Macpelah. She would have shared a golden anniversary with Rev Weicksel if she had lived two weeks longer. Survived by husband five children two sisters and 18 grandchildren. Funeral director R M Spacht.
Elmer Ruhl 57 of Brickerville died at Lancaster General Hospital at 11 45 P M Thursday from pneumonia. Survived by children Donald Everett Jane Eugene John and Margaret and by brothers Walter Elstonville and others and sisters Ella Alexander Stella Sesseman Mary Herr Esther Brinser Margie Parson. Services 1 30 P M Monday Miller funeral home Elizabethtown with further services at 2 P M at the Donegal
Mrs Frances Blantz 85 widow of Henry Blantz died at 5 A M Monday at the Long home near Lancaster from complications. She lived at the Home about a year born in Warwick Township daughter of John and Hannah Brechter. Survived by daughter Miss Mary A Blantz Philadelphia and son Clayton N Blantz Lebanon. Services held yesterday at Emmanuel Lutheran Brickerville with interment in the old Lutheran cemetery Brickerville.
Esaias B. Witmer, 80, Browns town, died at 9 30 A M Thursday after a weeklong illness of heart disease at his home. He was ordained as a minister of the Mennonite Church forty one years.
The obituary notes the death of a longtime member of the Groffdale and Metzler Mennonite Church districts. Survived by wife Anna Wenger Witmer two children Mrs Clever Dillman and Elam W both in Brownstown sixteen grandchildren and one great grandchild and numerous siblings including Levi EH Abraham Mrs David Stauffer Mrs Samuel Hornley Isaac Mrs Samuel Zimmerman and Mrs Christian H Stauffer. Services conducted at 1 30 P M Monday at home and 2 P M at Metzler's Mennonite Church with interment in the adjacent cemetery.
Miss Ethel L Kreider daughter of Miller Kreider and El wood H Keagy son of Claude H Keagy were married by Bishop Noah I Landis at his Neffsville home. A reception at David Keepert's followed with about thirty guests. The couple will live at Lancaster R. D. 6 after their wedding trip.
Mr and Mrs Henry Hamm of Lititz R D 3 announce the birth of a daughter Thursday morning at Lancaster General Hospital.
A preacher extols the gospel as perfect, universal, and salvific beyond earthly rivalries. He links Paul’s transformation to the gospel’s life giving power, comparing it to radium’s rarity and praising its redeeming love. He recalls Philadelphia’s dawn as symbol of spiritual sunrise when the gospel illuminates lives.
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