OBIT: Lottie Grace (COBER) BALDWIN, 1943, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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LOTTIE BALDWIN

  Mrs. Lottie Grace (Cober) Baldwin, wife of W. H. Baldwin, prominent local 
merchant, passed away Sunday afternoon, March 14, in Hazel McGilvery Hospital, 
where she had been a patient for about a week.
  A daughter of Isaiah and Eliza (Brant) Cober, she was born October 31, 1872, 
and was one of a family of five sisters and six brothers, who were born on the 
Cober farm located about one and a half miles outside of Berlin along the "plank 
road" in the direction of Somerset.  Surviving, besides her devoted husband, are 
two sisters, Mrs. Samuel Braucher, of Somerset, and Mrs. Henry Manges, of 
Berlin.  Those of the brothers and sisters who preceded Mrs. Baldwin in death 
were the Rev. A. A. Cober, who died during the time that he was serving as the 
pastor of the Baptist Church at Williamsport, Pa.; William Cober, who was 
preparing to engage in the Christian ministry, died at the age of 20; Emerson 
Cober, a school teacher, and Howard and Gilbert Cober, tradesmen, engaged in 
various sections of the county and elsewhere; Mrs. Emma Hauger, a resident of 
New Centerville, and Ida and Alice Cober, who died in infancy.
  Lottie Grace Cober and William H. Baldwin were united in marriage in Berlin on 
February 12, 1893.  Three years later they located in Meyersdale and during 
their 47 years' residence in our midst they have succeeded in attracting many 
warm, loyal friends who have always held them in the highest esteem, and who are 
correspondingly grieved in the passing of Mrs. Baldwin.
  On February 12 the couple observed their golden wedding anniversary in a quiet 
way, having hoped to hold "open house," but which pleasure was denied them on 
account of Mrs. Baldwin having developed an abcessed ear which was 
excruciatingly painful and which rendered her hearing unusually difficult.
  Mrs. Baldwin had been to a greater or lesser degree indisposed for 
approximately 20 years, but during the past 12 years she had been almost 
helpless.  This added burden, however, failed to detract from this noble woman's 
hopeful, pleasant and joyous outlook upon life.  Above all, she craved company, 
and was highly elated when her friends and neighbors thronged her hospitable 
home.  The commodious Baldwin living room in winter and the pleasant, spacious 
veranda in summer and autumn were the Mecca, seemingly, of those who sought an 
afternoon or evening of pleasant entertainment, with their host as leading 
entertainer.
  The numerous and beautiful floral offerings that banked the bier and occupied 
almost all the available space in the room, bore mute testimony of the sincere 
love and esteem in which this kind lady was held by her host of friends.  During 
the time she lay in state, hundreds called to view the mortal remains of one 
they had learned to love, as well as to sympathize with the bereaved husband and 
other relatives and friends.  Mrs. Baldwin was a consistent member of the 
Brethren faith, which she supported loyally and generously with all the various 
means at her disposal, though for long years denied the pleasure of attending 
the services on account of her physical condition. 
  Funeral services were held at the Baldwin home, Grant Street, Wednesday 
afternoon at two o'clock, by the Rev. R. M. Dunkelberger, D.D., pastor of Zion 
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Meyersdale, assisted by the Rev. V. N. Leatherman, 
pastor of the Berlin Brethren Church.  Interment was made in the Odd Fellows' 
Cemetery in Berlin, under the direction of W. C. Price & Son, Meyersdale 
morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, March 18, 1943