OBIT: Mary Ann BURKEY, 1945, Hollsopple, Somerset County, PA 

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ELIZABETH ANN LEVENTRY

Two Little Girls Victims of Flood At Holsopple

Drowned by Falling Into Raging Stream Body of One Child Not Recovered

  Two three-year-old tots were drowned in a rain-swollen stream near their homes 
in Holsopple last Tuesday, where shocked and saddened relatives and neighbors 
have been searching ever since for the body of one of them.
  The little girls, Mary Ann Burkey, child of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Burkey, and 
Elizabeth Ann Leventry, child of Pvt. and Mrs. Earl Leventry, cousins and 
inseparable playmates, wandered away from the home of one of them Tuesday 
afternoon, probably going to see the high water of the nearby stream which was 
on the rampage.
  When their absence was discovered and relatives and friends began looking for 
the tots, the body of Mary Ann Burkey was soon discovered lodged against a large 
rock in the stream where it empties into the Davidsville Run, but the body of 
her cousin has not been discovered despite unceasing efforts of volunteer 
firemen and members of the Holsopple Disaster Relief organizations.  Nets and 
grappling hooks were used, but the raging water may have carried the body on 
into the Stonycreek.
  The Burkey child's funeral will be conducted in the Holsopple United Brethren 
Church on Friday at 2 o'clock.  Besides her parents she is survived by two 
brothers, Billy, 13, and Ronnie, 5, and by her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey 
Leventry and Mrs. Lavina Wild, all of Holsopple.
  The father of Elizabeth Leventry, who saw service on the Western front in 
Europe, was evacuated to the States last November for medical care, and is now 
stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas.  He is expected home in a few days, when 
services will be arranged for his missing little daughter. Besides her parents, 
she is survived by three brothers, Edward, 6; Lawrence, 4; and Leonard, 1, and 
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Leventry and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones of 
Holsopple.

Meyersdale Republican, March 8, 1945