OBIT: Amy (ABERLY) DUNKELBERGER, 1948, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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AMY ABERLY DUNKELBERGER

  Mrs. Amy Aberly Dunkelberger, wife of Dr. R. M. Dunkelberger, died Sunday 
morning, Oct. 10, at the Warner Hospital in Gettysburg following an illness of 
about six months.
  She was taken ill last March while she was in India and, late in April, she 
flew home with her husband for special treatment in Baltimore.  When she 
appeared to be well on the road to recovery, her husband returned to his work in 
India while she remained at the home of her father in Gettysburg.  Recently she 
had a relapse, and Dr. Dunkelberger returned to her bedside.
  Mrs. Dunkelberger was born in Gunter, India, May 11, 1890, a daughter of Dr. 
John Aberly and the late Alice Strauss Aberly.  She was graduated from the 
academic and music courses at Irving College, Mechanicsburg, in 1909.  She 
returned to India with her parents in 1910 where in 1911 she married R. M. 
Dunkelberger.  Since that time, she was engaged as an active missionary along 
with her husband at a number of mission stations in India, finally at Tenall.  
She became very fluent in the use of the Telugu languages.  She taught in 
mission schools, and served as an official member of the Mission Council of East 
Guntur Synod.
  While on an extended furlough during the Second World War she shared in the 
work of her husband who was supply pastor for three years of Zion Lutheran 
Church, Meyersdale.
  She is survived by her husband, now on special leave from Tenall, India; her 
father, Dr. John Aberly, Gettysburg; one daughter, Mrs. Stanley Whitson, 
Clearspring, Md.; and one son, the Rev. Harold A. Dunkelberger, Mechanicsburg, 
Pa., and two grandchildren.
  Funeral services held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Christ 
Lutheran Church, Gettysburg, were conducted by Dr. Harry F. Baughman, supply 
pastor of Christ Church; Dr. A. R. Wentz, president of the Board of Foreign 
Missions of the United Lutheran Church; Dr. L. A. Gotwald, secretary of the 
board, and the Rev. E. Parakasan, president of the AEL Church in India.  
Interment was made in Evergreen Cemetery.
  Representatives of the Meyersdale Lutheran Church who went to Gettysburg to 
pay their last respects to Mrs. Dunkelberger and attend her funeral were Mrs. 
George Benford, Mrs. Josephine Englehart, Mary and Freda Daberko, and Mr. and 
Mrs. C. C. Boyer.

Meyersdale Republican, October 14, 1948