OBIT: Margaret (HERWIG) GLOTFELTY, 1948, West Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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MARGARET H. GLOTFELTY

  Mrs. Margaret H. Glotfelty died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jerry 
Beachy, in West Salisbury at 6:45 p.m. on Sunday, June 20, of chronic 
myocarditis.  Mrs. Glotfelty had been ailing for the past ten years, and has 
been bedfast much of the past year.
  She was born in Summit Township on September 1, 1868, a daughter of Henry and 
Dorothea (Horn) Herwig, and was 79 years, 9 months and 19 days in age at her 
passing.  She was married to Samuel D. Glotfelty who preceded her in death in 
1903.  A daughter, Mrs. Zephia Easton, also preceded her in death in 1927.  She 
resided most of her life in Salisbury and was a member of St. John's Evangelical 
and Reformed Church.
  She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ada G. Lichty and Mrs. Jerry Beachy, 
and one brother, William Herwig of Akron, O., and by three grandchildren and 
four great-grandchildren.
  Funeral services were conducted at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, June 22, at the Beachy 
home with her pastor, the Rev. Ira S. Monn officiating.  Interment was made in 
the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in charge of Mortician Stanley M. Thomas.  The pallbearers 
were David Cochrane, Lester Deal, Ernest Keim, H. Clay Newman, G. Rees Lichliter 
and Hubert L. Newman.

Meyersdale Republican, June 24, 1948