OBIT: Flora (BROWN) ASHMAN, 1943, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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FLORA ASHMAN

  Mrs. Flora (Brown) Ashman, mother of Rev. Kenneth Ashman, pastor of the 
Meyersdale and Summit Mills Brethren churches, and wife of Rev. Charles H. 
Ashman of Whittier, Cal., died last Friday night at her home in Whittier.
  Rev. C. H. Ashman was pastor of the First Brethren Church of Johnstown for 14 
years and was well known as a pastor and Evangelist.  The family left Johnstown 
in 1935 for Whittier, where Rev. Ashman accepted the pastorate of the Brethren 
Church in that city.
  In addition to her husband, Mrs. Ashman leaves six children - Rev. Kenneth 
Ashman, Meyersdale; Ruth, wife of Philip Lersch, Ashland, O.; Rev. Robert 
Ashman, Peru, Ind.; Mary, wife of Rev. Thomas Hammers, Tracy, Cal.; Donald 
Ashman, with the U.S. Army in Florida, and Charles Ashman, at home.  Also 
surviving are eight grandchildren and a number of relatives in Michigan, Mrs. 
Ashman's native state.
  Funeral services were conducted in Whittier on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Meyersdale Republican, August 5, 1943