OBIT: Laura (Knepper) BAUSH, 1932, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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LAURA K. BAUSH

  Mrs. Laura (Knepper) Baush, aged 72, widow of Peter Baush, died Saturday 
evening at 6:30 o'clock in Oglethorpe Hospital, Savannah, Ga., following a brief 
illness of pneumonia.  Mrs. Baush was taken suddenly ill a few days ago after 
arriving at the home of her daughter in Savannah to spend the winter.  She left 
Somerset for the South on November 8.
  She was the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olive Knepper, both deceased.  
Following her graduation from the Indiana, Pa., State Normal School, she taught 
in the primary grades at Somerset until 1882, when she married Peter Baush, of 
Somerset.
  Mr. and Mrs. Baush moved to Beaver City, Neb., after their marriage, where 
they resided until Mr. Baush passed away in 1897. Mrs. Baush then returned to 
Somerset and again was engaged as a teacher.  She retired eight years ago and 
had since been spending the summers in Somerset with her sister, Mrs. Frederick 
W. Biesecker, and the winters in Georgia with her two daughters, Mrs. Alexander 
James and Miss Elizabeth Baush.
  Surviving are these children:  Miss Elizabeth Baush, librarian at Savannah, 
Ga.; Mrs. Alexander James, of Savannah, Ga., and John R. Baush, of Philadelphia.  
A son, Lieut. Robert O. Baush, was killed on board the U.S.S. Utah in 1918.
  These brothers and sisters also survive:  Mrs. H. H. Anderson, of Gotebo, 
Okla.; Mrs. Frederick W. Biesecker, of Somerset; Mrs. John H. Beerits, of 
Somerset, and Orlo S. Knepper, of Bethlehem, Pa.  Four grandchildren also 
survive.  One brother, Captain Chester H. Knepper, of the U.S. Navy, is 
deceased.
  Mrs. Baush was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Somerset, and was a 
teacher of the Seekers Bible Class for many years.  She also was a soloist in 
the church choir.
  The body of Mrs. Baush arrived at Somerset Monday afternoon and was moved to 
the Frederick W. Biesecker home, where funeral services were conducted Tuesday 
afternoon at 3 o'clock in charge of the Rev. Dr. I. Hess Wagner, pastor of the 
Trinity Lutheran Church, followed by burial in the Somerset Union Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, December 1, 1932