OBIT: Nancy (LOVE) WOODCOCK, 1890, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Death of an Aged Christian Lady.

  Mr. Nancy Woodcock, the aged mother of William L. Woodcock, esq., of 
this city, and Rev. J. A. Woodcock, of Williamsport, died last evening 
at half past 10 o'clock at her home on Washington avenue, at the 
advanced age of four score and ten years.  She was born in 
Williamsburg, this county, her maiden name being Miss Nancy Love.  
Early in life she embraced the Christian religion and was a consistent 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church for seventy-five years.  The 
last fifty years she lived a most saintly life, "fervent in spirit 
serving the Lord," and died in the triumph of an uplifting and exultant 
faith.  The last several years of her beautiful life were spent, as she 
often expressed it, in waiting - "waiting for her Master to come and 
take her home."
  Her marriage took her to Wells valley, Fulton county, where she lived 
a devoted, happy life with her husband, John Woodcock, esq., who was 
taken from her by death in 1874.  She was noted for her sympathy, love 
and charity.  There was no house of affliction in Wells valley into 
which she did not find her way and her presence was helpfulness, cheer 
and comfort.  She was always sent for by the sick and dying and was 
most happy when she was relieving the afflicted, comforting the dying, 
sympathizing with the bereaved.  She was a great reader and sustained 
her greatest loss when a few years ago her sight failed her, so that 
she could no longer read.  She will be greatly missed by all, for of 
her it can truthfully be said she had no enemies.
  The funeral will take place on Thursday, October 23, at 2 o'clock 
p.m. from the First Methodist Episcopal church, this city.  Interment 
in Fairview cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Tuesday, October 21, 1890