OBIT: Gertrude E. GARBER, 1918, Beavertown, Blair County, PA

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MRS. GERTRUDE E. GARBER

  Suddenly on the afternoon of December 4th, after only a few days'
illness, Gertrude E., wife of Edward G. Garber, died at her home in
Beavertown.  She was in the prime of life, and her unexpected death
came as a shock to her numerous relatives and friends.  She was born
May 12, 1887, the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Detwiler,
also of Beavertown.  She left behind in her home, her husband and 
three children, Ella, William and Ruth.
  Her parents survive, together with the following sisters and brothers: 
Mrs. Fleetwood Brumbaugh of Martinsburg, Miss Katharine, Edward and
Harry, at home; Warren, a member of the American expeditionary force in
France, and Newton Royer, a half brother.
  The burial was from her late home on Sunday morning, the 8th, to 
Salem Reformed church where the funeral services were held.  A great
concourse of relatives and friends filled the church edifice.  The
service was in charge of her pastor, Rev. E. R. Deatrick.  At its close
the body was borne to Salem graveyard, just across the way from the
church of which she was a faithful member, in which she was so greatly
interested, and laid to rest within the shadow of the church she so
loved.  It was a fitting close to the simplicity and zeal of the life
of one who was striving to live a Christian.
  Mrs. Garber's immediate family circle has suffered heavily from death
since July 7th, when her grandmother, Mrs. William Fouse, died.
Besides, there have passed away in that interval a grandaunt, Mrs.
Susan Burket, and two cousins, Mervin and John Acker.  All are interred
at Salem church.

Martinsburg Herald, Handwritten date of December 20, 1918