OBIT: Rachel (BOLDEN) FINZEL BROWN, 1945, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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RACHEL FINZEL BROWN

  Mrs. Rachel Finzel Brown died at her home in Finzel, Md., on Saturday, April 
14, at 4:50 a.m. from diabetes and a complication of diseases.  Mrs. Brown was 
ill for a long time and finally passed away on her 77th birthday.  She was a 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bolden, and was born near where she died.
  She was twice married, first to John Finzel and then to William Brown.  Both 
husbands preceded her in death.  She is survived by four daughters: Mary, wife 
of Roy Mets, and Idella, wife of Howard Wagner, both of Finzel; Alberta, wife of 
John A. Housel, Salisbury, and Edna, wife of Charles Clark, Frostburg; two sons, 
John Finzel, at home, and Nelson Finzel, Akron, Ohio; two sisters, Alice, wife 
of William Finzel, Frostburg, and Mary, wife of Thomas Crowe, Greenville 
Township; three brothers, John Bolden, Frostburg; Charles Bolden, Meyersdale, 
and Albert Bolden, North Canton, Ohio, 29 grandchildren and 18 great-
grandchildren.
  Mrs. Brown was a faithful member of St. Mark's Evangelical and Reformed Church 
at Pocahontas, where funeral services were conducted on Monday, April 16, at 
2:00 p.m., with her pastor, Rev. J. E. Gindlesperger officiating.  Interment in 
the Finzel Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, April 19, 1945