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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1942
Page
5
Multiple deaths announced including Mrs Laura F Geiselman of Emmitsburg aged 68, funeral at St Anthony's with burial at Mt St Marys. Also Miss Minasse A Dell of Washington formerly of Frederick. funeral at Mt Olivet chapel. Mrs Martha May Hallman, colored, dies in Adamstown. funeral at Mt Ephraim cemetery. Burial and funeral arrangements listed.
Dr Richard Mason Myers a prominent retired dentist of Libertytown died at his home Monday morning at 9 30 aged 69 years one month and three days He practiced in Keedynville and Sharpsburg before moving Mrs Myers the former Agnes Regina Hitzelberger survived by three sons Robert P Thomas R and Louis V Myers and a daughter Mrs Marriet B Burns all of Libertytown Funeral services will be Thursday morning at 10 at St Peters Catholic Church Libertytown with Rev John L Collins celebrant Interment in adjoining cemetery Powell and Albaugh funeral directors
Funeral services for Mrs Georgetta M Coblentz wife of Oliver Z Coblentz were held at Middletown Reformed Church at 2 30 PM with Rev Philip Saylor officiating. Interment followed in Reformed cemetery. Gledhill Company supervised the funeral arrangements. The funeral of Mrs Florence Cecelia Forman colored wife of William H Forman died at 16 West Sixth Street was conducted from the Colored Baptist Church at 2 PM with Rev James W Davis officiating. Funeral attendees from the Madam C J Walker Temple of Elks performed ritualistic services. Pallbearers listed. Interment in Fairview cemetery. Etchison Son funeral directors. Two thirds of rubber produced in Mexico to be shipped to the United States. War quiz questions and last page answers.
Janet LaRue Long and Francis Alee Mummert wed at Keysville Evangelical church with a candlelit reception at the bride’s home. Mummert, a Baltimore city electrician, will live at 3625 Keswick Road after a weeklong honeymoon. Also wed were Alfred R. LeVan and Myrtle Cullison in Gettysburg, and Paul E. Houck and Frances Zellener with attendants from Frederick, Shookstown, Ridgely, and surrounding towns. The Grimes Jones marriage joined Charles Grimes and Mary F. Morgan’s daughter Ruby as attendant. the couple will reside at 13 West Third Street after a dinner reception in Walkersville.
The Zonta Club met Monday in the reception hall of the Roger Brooke Taney Homes and toured the new Federal Housing project. John L Shaw of the Frederick Housing Authority spoke on the project and its housing impact. Mrs. Estelle M Fellows presided. next week’s event is a twenty third anniversary birthday party at the Francis Scott Key hotel. Guests included Mrs. John W Wolfe Miss Elizabeth Wolfe and Mrs. Meredith H Mackley.
Among the sick at third street Mr William G Zimmerman is slightly improved but very sick. H David Hagan at Frederick City Hospital is progressing well after an operation last Tuesday. Charles Lemaster a Cumberland railroad fireman injured in a recent accident is improved at the hospital. Isabelle Kunkel Daniels discharged from Frederick City Hospital. Clara Miller who had a serious Johns Hopkins operation has returned home and is improving rapidly. Evelyn Koontz underwent tonsils and adenoids removal at Frederick City Hospital. Mary Louise Biggs removed to Emergency Hospital for acute rheumatic fever treatment. Dr Robert S Tyson improving at home after pneumonia illness. Mrs Gilmer Castle discharged to home. Ezra R Sheetenhelm at Frederick City Hospital for observation.
Miss Marian M. Rau daughter of Dr and Mrs R M Rau 212 Rockwell Terrace is now employed in Charlotte NC at the United States Rubber Naval Ordnance plant transferred recently from Naugatuck CT Miss Helen Hume Jervey former Hood College PE instructor now a lieutenant in the Womens Reserve US Naval Reserve begins a month long training at Smith College Mass November 10 President Hood College Henry I Stahl spoke in Bridgeport Conn and attended a meeting in Philadelphia Pa Mr and Mrs Carl Davis Fountain Mills hosted daughters Bettye Clara and their husbands Mauck Washington and Humphreys Indian Spring Village Silver Spring as guests Mr Mauck has passed physical to join the Navy William Marshall Hood son of Mr and Mrs Hood Mt Airy commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Medical Administrative Corps October 24 at Carlisle Barracks Carlisle Pa Mrs Hood and his parents attended Lieut Hood to report after ten day furlough to OTS St Louis for a month more training before assignment to Atlanta He and his wife Miss Jane Colliflower left for St Louis A christening November 1 Nancy Lee Delaughter daughter of Mr and Mrs WM Delaughter Point of Rocks Nancy Lee Delaughter christened by Rev Moylan Baltimore Births Michael David Dorman son of Mr and Mrs David Dorman Hagerstown guests at Braddock Weights etc Birthdays and church activities note various local families and Halloween events Minor social notices from Baltimore Washington and nearby areas.
The Junior Civic Club held its second meeting with a covered dish supper at Mrs. George B Hoke's home on North Market Street Tuesday evening marking the club's third anniversary. Decorations used Halloween colors and the evening featured songs prayers and a discussion on Legislation for the October meeting. War work stamps were given as prizes to several members and officers of both Junior and Senior Civic Clubs attended as guests. Deputy sheriffs Rosser E Butler William Vandercook and George J Bailey were named to guard war work property in Montgomery County after taking oaths.
A jumble of local promotions from Porters featuring Clark Sheet enheim's new music to pipeless furnaces in three grades Agcicola Armstrong Steel and Muciic with a 20 year guarantee Connector. Also beauty salon promotions Madame Fheebe palmist Mannes The Taller Ladies Suits fur remodeling and upcoming events at Francis Scott Key Hotel and Lucille's Beauty Shop with discount waves and door prizes.
A notice from Walkersville details oyster ham and chicken suppers after 5 pm on November 12 and 13. A public sale is set for Monday March 1 1943 featuring livestock and farm equipment with A William Altman and Glenn Trout as auctioneer and R L Kelly as clerk. Card of thanks from Mrs Annie C Sheffield family thanks friends for support, flowers, and use of automobiles.
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