OBIT: Lydia Ellen (Fresh) BOWSER, 1932, of interest in Somerset County, PA and Accident, Maryland File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library. Transcribed and proofread by: Richard Boyer. Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ LYDIA ELLEN BOWSER Accident, Md., Sept. 13 - Mrs. Lydia Ellen Bowser, nee Fresh, wife of William Frederick Bowser, died Sunday afternoon, Sept. 4, at the age of 49 years, 4 months and 21 days. She was born March 13, 1883, near Accident, and married in 1904. She was the mother of eight children, two of whom preceded her in death. In the year 1912 she was received into membership of Zion Lutheran Church, of Accident, of which Church she remained a faithful member until called to her heavenly home after a long illness. She is mourned by her husband, six children, four grandchildren, two brothers and one sister and a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday morning in Zion Lutheran Church by her pastor, Rev. A. W. Gode. Meyersdale Republican, September 15, 1932