OBIT: Grace Victoria (COBAUGH) BEATTY, 1943, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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GRACE VICTORIA BEATTY

  Mrs. Grace Victoria Beatty died Friday, January 8, at the family home, 413 
Yale Avenue, Baltimore, Md., following a prolonged illness.  She was a daughter 
of the late Charles P. and Rebella Cobaugh, and was born August 2, 1878, in East 
Conemaugh, Cambria County.  At various times, with her parents, she resided in 
Meyersdale, Connellsville and Rockwood, at which latter place both her parents 
and several brothers died.  Her father was employed as an engineer on the local 
division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
  She was united in marriage with George E. Beatty, who at the time was employed 
in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad shops in Connellsville.  Later the couple 
removed to Baltimore, Md., where Mr. Beatty continued to work for the B. & O. as 
a machinist in the Mount Clare shops of the company.  Mr. Beatty retired several 
years ago.
  Surviving are her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Mardell Hook, of Baltimore; two 
sisters, Mrs. Lena Mae Shoemaker, of Meyersdale, Mrs. Clara Millhouse, of 
Somerset, and a brother, George P. Cobaugh, 541 Wonder Street, Johnstown.  Mrs. 
Beatty was well known in Meyersdale, having frequently visited her sister, Mrs. 
Shoemaker. 
  Funeral services were conducted at the Beatty home, Baltimore, Md., Tuesday, 
January 12, at 11 o'clock a.m. with interment in the United States National 
Cemetery in Baltimore.

Meyersdale Republican, January 14, 1943