OBIT: Tena (Shultz) GRIFFITH, 1913, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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Griffith, Tena

  Mrs. Tena Griffith, widow of the late David Griffith, and a daughter 
of the late Daniel Shultz and wife, died very suddenly on Sunday 
morning. About a year ago she had been seriously sick, but apparently 
had regained her usual health. From Thursday on she had been 
complaining of not being well but no one realized her critical 
condition. She had been around the house all the time and even helped 
with some of the work. On Sunday morning, while getting ready to start 
the fire in the kitchen stove, without any premonition of approaching 
death by herself, or on the part of her daughter, who had just stepped 
out of the house, and on her return found the prostrate form of her 
mother at the kitchen sink. Mrs. Griffith never regained consciousness 
and after a few moans life had departed from the body. Heart failure 
had done its deadly work. She was 59 years of age. Mrs. Griffith is 
survived by two children as follows: Mrs. Stewart Gnagey and William 
Griffith, both living at home. She was a member of a large family and 
the following are the brothers and sisters: Joseph, Abraham, Levi, and 
Daniel Shultz of Meyersdale; Peter of Berlin; Bailen (?) of La Grange, 
Ind., and Cyrus of Rockwood; Mrs. Charles Askey and Mrs. Orville Bird, 
of near town. The funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon in 
the Church of the Brethren of which she had been a lifelong and 
consistent member. Interment was made in the Union Cemetery. Rev. E. K. 
Hostetler officiated.

Meyersdale Commercial, June 26, 1913