OBIT: Sarah Catherine (Queer) FISHER, 1930, Garrett, Somerset County, PA

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SARAH CATHERINE FISHER

  John Fisher, aged 70 years, and his wife, Sarah Catherine (Queer) Fisher, aged 
69, died within seven hours of each other at their home in Garrett last 
Thursday.  Mrs. Fisher died of pneumonia at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and Mr. 
Fisher, who had been ill from a complication of diseases for four months, died 
at 9 o'clock in the evening.
  A double funeral was held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the Garrett Church 
of the Brethren.  The services were conducted by Rev. George L. Detwiler, 
pastor.  Burial in the Ridgeview Cemetery.  J. N. Johnson, of Berlin, was the 
undertaker in charge.
  Both Mr. and Mrs. Fisher were natives of Somerset County.  Mr. Fisher worked 
as a coal miner for many years.
  These children survive:  Mrs. Lucy Engelka, of Berlin; Mrs. Ida Marker, of 
Brothersvalley Township; Mrs. Mary Brocht, of Garrett; Mrs. Jennie Weimer, of 
Stoyestown, and James Fisher, of Pittsburgh.  Forty-seven grandchildren and 27 
great-grandchildren also survive.

Meyersdale Republican, February 27, 1930