OBIT: Araminta May Otto FOLK, 1940, Casselman, Somerset County, PA

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ARAMINTA MAY OTTO FOLK

Grantsville, Maryland

  Mrs. Araminta May Otto Folk died Saturday night at her home at Casselman, 
three miles south of here, after an illness of about two months.  Mrs. Folk had 
suffered a stroke of paralysis and her condition had been critical for several 
weeks.
  She was 71 years, 6 months and 15 days of age.  She was born on the farm where 
she has since made her home, July 18, 1868, a daughter of the late Jacob D. and 
Annie Bender Otto.  Practically all of her life has been spent in this 
community, where she was well known and made many friends.
  On December 13, 1892, she married William Wilson Folk.  Five children were 
born to them, one of whom was drowned July 29, 1900, when only about two years 
old.  The others, with their bereaved father, survive.  They are Mrs. Milton B. 
Miller, Bruce and Daniel Folk, all of Grantsville, and Mrs. Paul Haning, 
Springs, Pa.  She also leaves one brother, Jacob J. Otto, three sisters, Mrs. 
Mary Gelnett, Mrs. Gideon D. Miller, all of Springs, and Mrs. Wilson Livengood, 
Grantsville, and fifteen grandchildren.
  In her early girlhood she united with the Casselman Mennonite Church and was 
always a faithful and devoted member.  Funeral services were conducted from the 
home at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, February 6, by Rev. Roy L. Kinsinger, 
Grantsville, and Rev. Chester Helmich, Pinto.  Interment was in the family plot 
on the home place.  Six nephews of the deceased served as pallbearers.

Meyersdale Republican, February 8, 1940