OBIT: Mary Louise (RIDENBAUGH) MOWER, 1942, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. MARY LOUISE MOWER

Widow of Simon S. Mower, died at 4.50 o'clock yesterday afternoon at 
the home of her son, Louis R. Mower, 909 Twenty-eighth street.  She was 
born Aug. 21, 1856, at Chambersburg, a daughter of Louis and Magdalene 
Ridenbaugh, and was married Dec. 24, 1874.  Surviving are these 
children: Mrs. Hattie Heckert, Fred S., Louis R. and Leroy E, all of 
the city.  Two sons preceded her in death.  Also surviving are nine 
grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.  Mrs. Mower was the last 
of her immediate family.  She was a lifelong member of the United 
Brethren church, of the Friendly Bible class, the Ladies of the Golden 
Eagle, and a charter member of the Winnehurket council, No. 69, Degree 
of Pocahontas, to which she belonged for thirty-seven years.  Friends 
will be received at the Gilden-Barton funeral home after 7 o'clock 
tonight.

MOWER - Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Louise Mower, of 909 Twenty-
eighth street, will be conducted by Rev. Warren Hayes of the First 
United Brethren church at the Gilden-Barton funeral home Sunday 
afternoon at 2.30 o'clock.  Interment in Oak Ridge cemetery.  Friends 
are being received at the Gilden-Barton funeral home.

Altoona Mirror, May 1, 1942