Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Hannah Belle Mosteller LUMIS, 1927

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Daily Local
West Chester, Pennsylvania
May 9, 1927

MRS. R. R. LUMIS

At Byers, on Saturday afternoon, H. Belle, widow of Robert Ralston Lumis, 
died after an illness of several days with pneumonia. She was a daughter 
of Henry and Margaret Mosteller, and was born in West Vincent Township, 
in 1859, and had spent her entire life in that section. Her husband, a 
well-known businessman and brother of George S. and J. Howard Lumis, of 
West Chester, died in March of last year. She is survived by a son, Oscar 
M. Lumis, who keeps the general store at Byers, and a daughter E. Edna, 
at home.

Two sisters, Miss M. Emma Mosteller, of Byers, and Mrs. Ellen Holman, of 
Phoenxiville, survive also. There is one grandson. She was a member of St. 
Matthew's Lutheran Church.

Lumis – In Byers, Pa., on May 7, H. Belle, widow of Robert Ralston Lumis, 
aged 68 years.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at her 
late residence, Byers, on Wednesday afternoon, May 11, at 2 o'clock standard 
time. Interment at St. Matthew's Lutheran Cemetery, Friends may call on 
Tuesday evening from 7 to 8:30 o'clock, standard time. Please omit flowers.


Daily Local
West Chester, Pennsylvania
May 12, 1927

The funeral of H. Belle, widow of Robert Ralston Lumis, took place yesterday 
afternoon from her late home at Byers, and was largely attended by relatives 
and friends. Services were in charge of Rev. Paul Whitman, pastor of St. 
Matthew's Lutheran Church, assisted by Rev. I. F. Walton, pastor of Windsor 
Baptist Church, A quartette sang "Lead Kindly Light" and "Abide With Me." 
Interment was at St. Matthew's Lutheran Cemetery, the pallbearers being George 
Anderson, Jos. Phipps, Harry Davis, William Crosby, Clarence Rice and John Kenney.