OBIT: Mary Jane (BEAL) COSTELLO, 1944, native of Somerset County, PA

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MARY JANE COSTELLO

  Mary Jane Costello, aged 88, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. P. 
E. Vincent, in Confluence on Monday morning, December 27.  She was born February 
13, 1885, the daughter of Jacob and Margaret Sturtz Beal, at Wellersburg, 
Somerset County, Pa., and was a life-long resident of the County.  Her church 
membership was with the Lutheran denomination.
  On November 21, 1872, she was united in marriage to Thomas Costello at Ursina.  
Rev. William Barnes, officiating.  Fifty-three years of married life was spent 
in and near Fort Hill, until the demise of her husband, October 3, 1925.  She 
was the mother of eleven children, eight of whom preceded her in death.  
Surviving are Charles E., McKeesport; Harry C., Jeannette; and Mrs. P. E. 
Vincent, Confluence; also six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
  Funeral services were held at the Humbert Funeral Home at 10:30 a.m., December 
29, Rev. Frank A. Webb, pastor of the M. E. Church officiating.  Burial in the 
old Lutheran Cemetery at Kingwood.

Meyersdale Republican, January 13, 1944