OBIT: Edna Ruth (EDWARDS) ASHBY, 1948, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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EDNA RUTH ASHBY

  Mrs. Edna Ruth Ashby, 56, wife of Jesse J. Ashby, clerk to the county 
commissioners, died at her home in Oakland, Wednesday evening, after an illness 
of several years.
  She was born May 16, 1892, in Pennsylvania, a daughter of the late Charles U. 
and Carrie (Yeager) Edwards of Grantsville.  
  Surviving are her husband, one son, Harold Ashby, who is attending school in 
Tennessee; a daughter, Eloise Ashby of Oakland, and a niece, Miss Chrystal 
Elliott, whom Mr. and Mrs. Ashby had reared since childhood; one sister, Mrs. C. 
E. Ashby of Grantsville; a half-sister, Mrs. James Frame of Kingwood, W.Va.; 
three brothers, William G. Edwards of Baltimore, George D. and Harry C. Edwards 
of Grantsville.
  Mrs. Ashby was an active member of St. Paul's Methodist Church, a past worthy 
matron of the Eastern Star, and also a member of the Phythian Sisters.
  Funeral services were conducted at the Bolden Funeral Home, Saturday 
afternoon, with Dr. Denver C. Pickens, Methodist pastor, officiating.  Interment 
was made in the Oakland Cemetery.
  Relatives from Grantsville who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. H. C. 
Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. George Edwards, Mrs. C. E. Ashby, Mrs. Roy Mickey, the 
Rev. and Mrs. D. J. Combs.

Meyersdale Republican, July 8, 1948