OBIT: Thelma BAER, 1933, native of Somerset County, PA

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THELMA BAER

  The people of Salisbury and Greenville Township were greatly shocked when it 
became known last Monday, the 2nd, inst., that Miss Thelma Baer, eldest daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Baer, of Greenville Township, had died very suddenly 
during the morning of that day in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., 
where she had been employed as a nurse in that splendid and far-famed 
institution.
  Miss Baer was one of the best known and most popular young women in Greenville 
Township, and was also well known and very popular in Salisbury, where she lived 
with her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Baer, during the years she attended the 
Salisbury High School, from which she was graduated in the class of 1928.  She 
made many friends while attending high school, and soon after her graduation 
went to Baltimore, where she completed the prescribed course to become a 
professional nurse, and ranked as one of the most efficient in her class.  In a 
very short time she was filling a very responsible position in the great 
hospital where her life of usefulness came so suddenly to a close in the 24th 
year of her age, in spite of all that good nursing and medical science could do 
for her.
  It was only the last week that Miss Baer was enjoying the Christmas season 
with her parents at the family home, and with other relatives and friends in 
Greenville and Salisbury.  She was apparently in the best of health while 
visiting among her home folks, but was slightly weakened from a tonsil operation 
she had undergone a few weeks before coming to spend her Christmas vacation.  
Her duties at the place of her employment made it necessary for her to return to 
Baltimore on Christmas night, where she was busy as a nurse until Wednesday 
night, when she became ill, having contracted influenza, which soon developed 
into an acute case of pneumonia.  Her parents were promptly notified of the 
seriousness of her condition, and hastened to her bedside, where they arrived 
Friday afternoon.  The parents found her very ill, but neither Thelma nor her 
parents could realize that her death was so near.  In fact Miss Baer herself 
believed she would recover, and that gave hope to her parents.  So when the news 
of her death was received so soon after their return home, the shock was indeed 
very great.
  Miss Baer is survived by her parents, five sisters and one brother, all at 
home.  The sisters are Arline, Sylvia, Pearl, Ruth and Lucille.  The brother is 
Estel.
  The funeral was held this (Thursday) afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, in the 
Greenville Lutheran Church, of which congregation Miss Baer was a member.  The 
service was conducted by Rev. S. D. Sigler, and was attended by a large 
concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends.  The burial arrangement was in 
charge of Funeral Director J. L. Tressler of Meyersdale.  Interment was made in 
the Greenville church cemetery.  The floral tributes were numerous and very 
beautiful.  The pallbearers were nearly, or quite all, members of the high 
school class in which Miss Baer was graduated.

Meyersdale Republican, January 5, 1933