Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Katie LUMIS, 1909

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Katie Lumis- Kate 
 
Daily Local
West Chester, Pennsylvania
May 5, 1909

MRS. JOHN F. LUMIS

In Upper Uwchland yesterday, Mrs. Kate Cecelia Lumis, wife of John F. Lumis, 
died at the age of 60 years and 27 days. She was well esteemed in the 
neighborhood and was connected with St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, where her 
funeral will take place. Two daughters survive her, Blanche and Mary Lumis. A 
sister, the widow of John Hufty, lives at Conshohocken. There are also four 
brothers: Eugene and John Guest, of Nantmeal; Leighton Guest of Philadelphia, 
and David Guest, of Pottsville. The mother of E. Vinton Phillips, Downingtown, 
was a sister.

Daily Local
West Chester, Pennsylvania
May 8, 1909

Lumis – In Upper Uwchland, on Tuesday, May 4th, Mrs. Kate Cecelia, wife of John 
F. Lumis, aged 60 and 27 days.

Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the 
funeral without further notice from her late residence, in Upper Uwchland, on 
Saturday, May 8th, 1909. Services and interment at St. Matthew's Lutheran 
Church. Leave the house at 11 o'clock a.m. Carriages will meet trains at Anselma 
Station, Pickering Valley Railroad at 9:45 a.m.

FUNERALS

The funeral of Kate Cecelia, wife of John F. Lumis, took place today from her 
home in Upper Uwchland. Services and interment were at St. Matthew's Lutheran 
Church. Among the relatives who went from West Chester were J. Howard Lumis and 
family, George J. Moses and mother, Clinton K. Mosteller and family and George 
S. Lumis and family.

Daily Local
West Chester, Pennsylvania
May 10, 1909

FUNERALS

The funeral of Mrs. John F. Lumis, on Saturday last from her late residence, in 
Upper Uwchland Township, was the largest that has been in Northern Chester 
County for many years. The church was more than filled. The Rev. Mr. Richards, 
pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, officiated, who after reading the 91st 
Psalm, took for his text part of the 39th verse of the 36th chapter of St. 
Matthew, "Not as I will, but as thou will." After first speaking tenderly of 
this good woman, who was known to so many persons of being such an amiable, 
kind-hearted woman, that she looked up on the bright side of life and no one was 
ever depressed in spirits after being in her company, always looking at the 
charitable side of everything, and there were many others who could testify the 
same way. The choir snag very sweetly two selections, "Asleep in Jesus" and 
"Nearer, My God, to Thee," and noticeable in the choir was Mrs. William Eaches, 
one of the sweetest of singers, and although somewhat up in years, it was very 
noticeable that she had not lost any of her old time prestige. It may be stated 
that there were but few eyes but showed that a loving friend and neighbor had 
been taken from their midst, never to be returned. The pallbearers were nephews 
of the deceased. She was carried from the church to her final resting-place in 
the cemetery adjoining the church.