OBIT: Martha (LOWRY) GEIGER, 1945, Larimer Township, Somerset County, PA

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MARTHA GEIGER

  Mrs. Martha Geiger, 74, a life-long resident of Larimer Township, died at 7:10 
o'clock Monday evening at her home near Wittenburg, after a long illness from 
paralysis.
  She was born on Nov. 20, 1870, a daughter of John and Margaret (Glotfelty) 
Lowry.  Surviving are her husband, Ezra Geiger; four sons, John H. and Harvey 
A., both of the Sand Patch district; Walter H., Corriganville, Md., and Irvin, 
Mt. Savage, Md. - and one daughter, Mrs. Marline Shockey, Sand Patch, R.D. 1.  
She also leaves 44 grandchildren, two brothers - William Lowry, Akron, O., and 
John E. Lowry, Cuyahoga Falls, O. - and three sisters - Mrs. W. W.  Miller and 
Mrs. Sherman Bittner, both of Meyersdale R.D. 3, and Mrs. Sarah Beitle, 
Wadsworth, O.
  She was a very devoted wife and mother, and kind neighbor.
  Mrs. Geiger was a lifelong member of the White Oak Lutheran Church, where 
funeral services were conducted at 2:30 this (Thursday) afternoon by Rev. George 
E. Bowersox, pastor of the Salisbury Lutheran Church.  Burial in the church 
cemetery was directed by W. C. Price & Son, Meyersdale morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, August 9, 1945