OBIT: Vera Viola (SHOEMAKER) BROWN, 1948, Springs, Somerset County, PA

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VERA VIOLA BROWN

  Mrs. Vera Viola Brown died suddenly at her home in Springs on Saturday, April 
3, of pulmonary endema.  Mrs. Brown became very ill about 3:00 a.m., and her 
husband, Charles L. Brown, summoned a physician.  However, Mrs. Brown died in 
her sleep about 8:30 a.m.  She had been suffering from valvular heart disease 
for 15 years and, in 1939, was kept in an oxygen tent for a week in order to 
prolong her life then.
  She was born on June 23, 1912, in Elk Lick Township, a daughter of Norman and 
the late Grace (Maust) Shoemaker, and was 35 years, 9 months and 10 days old at 
her death.  She had been employed as a seamstress in the Salisbury Manufacturing 
Company pilot plant and was at work and in apparent good health on Friday before 
her passing.
  In addition to her husband and her father, she is survived by one sister, Mrs. 
Elva Engle, and by two brothers, Melvin and Gilbert Shoemaker.
  Funeral services were conducted in the Springs Mennonite Church on Monday, 
April 5, at 2:30 p.m., with Rev. Walter Otto officiating.  Interment was in the 
church cemetery in Springs, in charge of Mortician Stanley M. Thomas.

Meyersdale Republican, April 8, 1948