OBIT: Margaret Theresa (STACER) GRABENSTEIN, 1945, native of Somerset County, PA

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MARGARET THERESA GRABENSTEIN

  Mrs. Margaret Theresa Grabenstein, 75, widow of Joseph M. Grabenstein, died 
last Friday evening at 8:15 o'clock at her home, 401 Columbia Street, 
Cumberland, after suffering a stroke, Thursday, at her home.
  She was a native of Meyersdale, a daughter of the late John and Mary Ann Breig 
Stacer.  She had been a resident of Cumberland for fifty years.  Her husband 
died nine years ago.
  Mrs. Grabenstein was a faithful member of SS. Peter and Paul Church of 
Cumberland, of the Arch Confraternity of Christian Mothers and of the Third 
Order of St. Francis.
  She is survived by two sons, Justus J. and Richard J. Grabenstein, both of 
Cumberland, two daughters, Sister Mary Justin of the Order of St. Francis, New 
Castle, Pa., and Mrs. Emma Soethe, Cumberland.
  Two brothers, George, Meyersdale, and Frank J. Stacer, Homestead, Pa., and 
four sisters, the Misses Anna, Esther, Clara and Lucy Stacer, all of Meyersdale, 
also survive.
  Funeral services were conducted Monday morning at 10 o'clock in SS. Peter and 
Paul Catholic Church, with Rev. Boniface Weckman, O.F.M. Cap., Charleston, 
W.Va., a former pastor, as celebrant.
  Rev. Henry F. Grabenstein, Baltimore, was deacon and Rev. Noel Trojan, O.F.M. 
Cap., assistant pastor, was sub-deacon.  Interment was in SS. Peter and Paul 
Cemetery.  Pallbearers were Alphonosus, Raphael, Henry, Paul J., James E. and 
Edward Grabenstein.

Meyersdale Republican, May 24, 1945