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DEATH OF STEPHEN DRESHER.Well Known Stillwater Resident Passed Away Thursday Mornday.The community in and about Stillwater was saddened Thursday morning last on learning of the death of Stephen Dresher, a well known and esteemed resident of that Borough.The announcement came as a shock to his many friends. The fact that he was ill had become pretty generally known about the neighborhood, but by none was his condition considered dangerous. Only the preceding evening he had walked from his home to M. McHenry Son’s store, a distance of about a mile. Some time after returning home he was taken with a stroke of paralysis w’hich together with a slight attack of pneumonia, terminated fatally at ten o’clock Thursday morning.Mr. Dresher stood high in the estimation of those who knew him. He was honest, straightforward and industrious, and was the owner of one of the prettiest farms in the Fishingcreek Valley.The deceased was seventy four years of age and is survived by two sons and two daughters, Alvin of Raven Creek and Bruce of Stillwater, and Mrs. Prof. E. B. Beish-line of Stillwater, and Miss Josephine residing at home.The funeral which was largely attended by relatives, friends and neighbors, occurred from the home Saturday morning at ten o’clock.
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The Columbian
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Feb 23, 1905
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