OBIT: Merna C. (DICK) McGINNIS, 1935, McKee, Blair County, PA

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MRS. MERNA CATHARINE DICK McGINNIS

Wife of Roy W. McGinnis and well known resident of Roaring Spring for 
many years, although for the past few years a resident of McKee, died 
at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. C. H. Bowser, 511 Walnut street, 
Roaring Spring at 1.10 o'clock Sunday morning following an illness of 
nearly a year during which time she was confined to her bed almost 
continuously. Mrs. McGinnis, an active member of the ladies auxiliary 
to the Murray-Appleman post, No. 147, American Legion, of Roaring 
Spring, was a daughter of David Lower and Ellen Roush Dick, and was 
born at Rodman on April 18, 1898, where she spent her girlhood days, 
moving with her parents to Roaring Spring where she attended school. On 
Dec. 31, 1919 she was united in marriage with Roy W. McGinnis of 
Roaring Spring, the wedding ceremony being performed in Cumberland, Md. 
She was a member of the Methodist church at McKee and took a keen 
interest in the work of the church as well as the Legion Auxiliary. 
Beside her parents she is survived by her husband and the following 
sisters and brother:  Mrs. Marion Thompson of Newry, Mrs. Ruth Kennedy 
of McKee and Lester Dick of Pittsburgh. For the past three months she 
had resided with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Bowser, from which place the 
funeral cortege will leave at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon for the 
Trinity Methodist church, where services will be conducted by Rev. C. 
W. Montgomery, pastor of the McKee Methodist church, assisted by Rev. 
and Mrs. L. B. Bartsin at Hastings and Rev. J. Walter Skillington, 
pastor of the Roaring Spring church. Interment will be made in 
Greenlawn cemetery at Roaring Spring.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Monday, September 16, 1935, p. 4, col. 3