OBIT: Ruanna S. GORDON, 1898, Waynesboro, Franklin County, PA

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Mrs. Ruanna S. Gordon, widow of the late D. Fullerton Gordon, died at her home 
in Waynesboro Tuesday morning from general paralysis.  The second of May she 
would have been seventy years old.  Mrs. Gordon was the only daughter of the 
late David Mellvaine and her husband, D. Fullerton Gordon, during his life was 
one of Waynesboro's most prominent citizens.  She was a christian lady and a 
devout member of the Presbyterian church.  Deceased is survived by the following 
children – Misses Elizabeth, Margaret and Anna at home, Mrs. J. M. Hill, near 
Fannettsburg; Mrs. H. J. Gilbert, near Waynesboro; Robert N., Fannettsburg; J. 
C. W., St. Louis, Mo.


People's Register, Chambersburg, PA, March 18, 1898