OBIT: Mary E. (HILLEGASS) FRITZ, 1984, Garrett, Somerset County, PA
  
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  MARY E. FRITZ

    Mary E. Fritz, 88, of Garrett RD 1, died February 2, 1984, at Meyersdale
  Community Hospital.
    She was born March 11, 1895, in Stonycreek Township, the daughter of
  Luther J. and Mary (Glessner) Hillegass.
    She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Harry M., in
  1967.  infant twin daughter, Dorothy, who died in 1926; three sisters: Mrs.
  Nellie Landis, Mrs. Etta Lambert, and Miss Pearle Hillegass; and nine
  brothers: Robert, Howard, Ross, John, George, Harry, Alvin, Nevin and
  Lester.
    Education and farming were their predominant occupations.  She attended
  Berlin Normal School, and taught school in Somerset County for a number of
  years.
    She was a member of the Garrett Senior Citizens, and Zion Lutheran
  Church, Meyersdale.  Always very active in church organizations, especially
  as a teacher of adult classes at the former St. Paul's (Fritz) Lutheran
  Church.
    She was the last surviving member of her family.
    She is survived by these children: Alfred, Frostburg, Maryland; Eugene,
  Garrett; Doris, married to Dr. John Dunlap, Harrisburg; and Loretta,
  married to Harold Saylor, Meyersdale RD 1; also eight grandchildren and
  five great-grandchildren.
    Friends were received at the Johnson-Kuhlman Funeral Home, Berlin, where
  services were held with the Rev. Lloyd T. Wilson.  Interment, Fritz church
  cemetery.
  
  The Republic, February 9, 1984
  
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