OBIT: Lillie Maude (KURTZ) AMBILL, 1944, of interest in Somerset County, PA

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library.
Transcribed and proofread by: Richard Boyer.

Copyright 2008.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/
________________________________________________

LILLIE AMBILL

  Many friends in Grantsville of Mrs. Lillie Maude Kurtz Ambill, widow of the 
late Harry W. Ambill of Wilkinsburg, Pa., were shocked to hear of her sudden 
death in the McGee Hospital, Pittsburgh, on Thursday, October 5, due to a 
complication of ailments.
  Mrs. Ambill was in ill health the past summer and was a patient in the 
hospital for three weeks.  Her death was hastened by paralysis a few days before 
she passed away.
  Mrs. Ambill was the daughter of the late Simon P. and Barbara Ellen (Blocher) 
Kurtz, and was born in Frostburg, Md., May 12, 1871.  She was 73 years of age.
  When she was four months old, her mother was stricken with smallpox and died.  
Her aunt, Miss Louise Kurtz, and brothers, Dennis and Leonard, resided here.  
They brought Lillie here and reared and educated her. 
  She learned the milliner trade and conducted the leading milliner store in 
Grantsville until her marriage.  She was also an accomplished musician and was 
organist of the Reformed Church.
  Lillie Kurtz was married to Harry W. Ambill, April 12, 1899, by Rev. E. S. 
Hassler, in the Grantsville Reformed Church.
  Surviving are two sons, H. Paul Ambill of Wilkinsburg and William T. Ambill of 
Irwin, Pa.; two grandsons, Paul and Howard Ambill; one brother, Charles Kurtz, 
Bridgeville, Pa.
  Her husband died July 8, 1926 in the office of the Carnegie Steel Co., where 
he was employed.
  Mrs. Ambill was an attractive and accomplished woman.  She was a member of the 
Reformed Church, but later joined the First United Presbyterian Church in 
Wilkinsburg.
  Dr. James Bert, her pastor, conducted the funeral services on Sunday, Oct. 8, 
at 8 p.m. in the Kelkilty Funeral Home, Wilkinsburg.  Interment in the Allegheny 
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Monday afternoon, Oct. 9, in the Ambill family plot.
  Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Edwards, C. U. Edwards, Mrs. Henry L. Durst and Ethel 
Broadwater spent last Sunday with the bereaved relatives of Mrs. Ambill in 
Wilkinsburg.

Meyersdale Republican, October 12, 1944