OBIT: Amanda (MURRAY) BROWN, 1943, native of Somerset County, PA

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AMANDA BROWN

  Mrs. Amanda (Murray) Brown, 74, died Friday, July 9, at 3:29 p.m., in the 
Hazel McGilvery Hospital, where she had been a patient for several days.
  A daughter of James and Lydia (Beal) Murray, she was born in Greenville 
Township, on June 16, 1869.  Her husband, John P. Brown, died in 1916.
  Surviving are ten children - Frank J., Johnstown; Morris A., Somerset; Lloyd 
C., Cumberland, Md.; Clarence W., Norfolk, Va.; William H., Stoystown; Mrs. 
Martha Wheeling, Rockwood; Mrs. George W. Winters, Meyersdale; Mrs. Hubert E. 
Christner and Mrs. Victor C. Blocher, both of Boynton, and Mrs. Simon Marteeney, 
Meyersdale.  Also surviving are 26 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, a 
brother, Owen Murray, Meyersdale, and a sister, Mrs. Christian Mankameyer, 
Larimer Twp.
  Funeral services were conducted at 2:45 o'clock Monday afternoon in the 
Hostetler Church of the Brethren, Greenville Township, by Rev. DeWitt L. Miller, 
pastor of the Meyersdale Church of the Brethren.  Burial in the church cemetery 
under the direction of W. C. Price & Son, local morticians.
  Mrs. Brown's home was along U.S. Highway 219 near the township line a short 
distance north of Pine Grove.  Her husband passed away when most of her children 
were still quite young.  She was both father and mother to them and brought them 
up in the way they should go.  She was a devoted Christian mother and was highly 
esteemed by her neighbors.

Meyersdale Republican, July 15, 1943