OBIT: Elizabeth (Yommer) DURST, 1940, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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ELIZABETH DURST

  Mrs. Silas Durst died at her home about two miles south of Salisbury, February 
14, at the age of 73 years and 2 months.  Her death was caused by diabetes and a 
cerebral hemorrhage.  She had been ailing for a long time and her death was not 
unexpected.
  She was a native of Garrett County, Md., and her maiden name was Elizabeth 
Ellen Yommer, daughter of John and Elsie Durr Yommer, natives of Germany, who 
settled in Garrett County, Md., many years ago.  She is survived by her husband 
and six children, namely, Ernest, Daniel, Victor, Lawrence and Francis Durst, 
and Nellie, wife of Lewis Keefer, all residing near their parental home.  Mrs. 
Durst is also survived by two sisters and a brother,, Mrs. Edward Beachy, 
residing near Grantsville, Md., Mrs. Milton Folk, of Fredonia, Pa., and Henry 
Yommer of Jennings, Md.
  Funeral service was held at St. John's Lutheran Church, Salisbury, last 
Friday, at 2:30 p.m., conducted by her pastor, Rev. S. D. Sigler, assisted by 
Rev. A. M. Wright of St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Church.
  The burial arrangements were in charge of Stanley M. Thomas, Salisbury 
mortician, with interment in the Salisbury I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
  By the death of Mrs. Durst, the neighborhood in which she lived so many years 
of her life has lost one of its most kindly disposed women.  She was a true and 
devoted wife and mother, a good neighbor, and was held in high esteem by all who 
knew her.

Meyersdale Republican, February 22, 1940