OBIT: Barbara (Orendorf) BRENNEMAN, 1941, of interest in Somerset County, PA 

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BARBARA O. BRENNEMAN

Garrett County, Maryland

  Funeral services for Mrs. Barbara Orendorf Brenneman, wife of Noah Brenneman, 
were held Monday afternoon from the Maple Glen Conservative Amish Mennonite 
Church.  Rev. J. J. Miller officiated and interment was in the adjoining 
cemetery.  Pallbearers were Irvin J. Yoder, Enos Maust, Irvin E. Yoder, Norman 
Bender, Floyd Miller and Allen Maust.  Mrs. Brenneman, who was 78 years of age, 
died at her home near here about 7 o'clock Saturday morning after an extended 
illness.  She was born at Cove, Aug. 24, 1862, a daughter of Christian and Lena 
Beachy Orendorf.  She married Mr. Brenneman in January 1898.  They had no 
children of their own, but for about sixteen years operated an Amish Children's 
Home near here from the time it was founded in 1914 until 1929.  The name of 
"Mamma Brenneman", as she was called is known to hundreds of children throughout 
this section who found a home there during that time.  Mr. and Mrs. Brenneman 
gave up the management of the home in 1929 and moved to a small house on the 
same property where they have since resided and the home was closed about a year 
later.
  Surviving besides her husband are one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Beitzel, a half-
sister, Mrs. Ben Schrock, and a half-brother, Solomon Orendorf, all of near 
Bittinger.

Meyersdale Republican, May 8, 1941