OBIT: Samuel DITZLER, 1908, family of Adams County, PA

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Samuel Ditzler, of Hanover, died Tuesday of last week at the York city hospital 
from an abscess of the lungs, aged 48 years and 5 months.  Mr. Ditzler had been 
ill for several months and was taken to the York hospital for treatment May 20th 
last.

He was a son of the late Samuel Ditzler, of Berwick township, this county, and 
was united in marriage 27 years ago to Miss Mary Reichert, daughter of George 
Reichert, of Abbottstown, who survives him, with three sons – Willis R. Ditzler, 
of York, Elmer of London, Eng., and Raymond at home, and two daughters – Mrs. 
Harry Stine, Hanover and Miss Almena Ditzler, of York.  Three brothers, D. H. 
Ditzler, of Hanover, John Ditzler, of near Littlestown, Rev. Henry Ditzler, of 
Mt. Jackson, Va., and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Wolf, of Abbottstown, and Miss 
Amanda Ditzler, of Hanover, also survive.

The body was taken to Hanover last Wednesday and the funeral was held last 
Friday.  Short services were held at the house, after which the funeral 
proceeded to Abbottstown, where further services were conducted in the Reformed 
church, and interment made in the Reformed cemetery, Rev. M. J. Roth, 
officiating.

Gettysburg Compiler – Wednesday, June 24, 1908