OBIT: Anna Barbara (REICHELT) HANFT, 1941, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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ANNA BARBARA HANFT

Garrett County, Maryland

  Mrs. Anna Barbara Reichelt, wife of Adam Hanft, of the Keyser's Ridge 
community, died at the Allegany Hospital, Cumberland, about 6:30 o'clock 
Thursday evening, January 9.  She had been ill for about four months and had 
been a patient at the hospital since Nov. 30.
  Born at Lonaconing, May 6, 1872, she was a daughter of August and Rosina Fresh 
Reichelt.  She was 68 years of age at the time of her demise.  She and Mr. Hanft 
had been married for about forty-nine years.  They had resided at Keyser's Ridge 
for many years.  Mrs. Hanft was the last of her family in which there were 
fourteen children.
 Surviving besides her husband, are five daughters and one son, namely: Mrs. 
Ralph Frazee, at home; Mrs. Earl Turney and Mrs. Joe Wright, Addison, Pa.; Mrs. 
Joseph Seibert, Somerfield, Pa.; Mrs. Walter Weimer, Fairchance, Pa., and August 
Hanft, Stone House Farm, Grantsville.
  Mrs. Hanft had long been a member of the German Lutheran Church at Cove, where 
funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, Jan. 12.  Rev. H. H. Fickenscher, 
pastor, officiated, and interment was in the adjoining cemetery under the 
direction of William Winterberg, local mortician.  Pallbearers were Messrs. 
Charles Reichenbecher, Scott Duckworth, Adam A. Hanft, John Reichenbecher, 
William Hanft and Melchor Kolb.

Meyersdale Republican, January 16, 1941