OBIT: Annie Hart (McKINLEY) HAVRON, 1941, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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ANNIE HART HAVRON

  Mrs. Annie Hart (McKinley) Havron, of Palmdale, California, formerly a 
resident of Salisbury, Pa. for many years, grew to womanhood there, and for 
several years was employed as a teacher in the public schools of Elk Lick 
Township, died in the Los Angeles General Hospital, Feb. 9, 1941, aged 84 years 
and 21 days.
  She was the last surviving child of Arthur McKinley, Sr., and was preceded in 
death by the following brothers and sisters: Shakespeare McKinley, Dr. D. O. and 
Stephen R. McKinley; Kerine, second wife of the late Casper Wahl; Thomasine, 
second wife of the late E. E. McDowell, all of whom died in Salisbury; Dr. H. C. 
McKinley of Meyersdale, and Miss Janet McKinley of California State.  Before the 
parents located in Salisbury, which was during the Civil War period, the family 
resided at Flintstone, Md.
  After teaching several years, Miss Anna H. became the wife of the late Elijah 
Fuller of West Salisbury, who died a few years later, and during the many years 
she was a widow, she resided most of the time in Cumberland, Md., and in the 
state of California, spending the last 14 years of her life as a helpless 
invalid in the hospital where she died, most of the time confined to her bed and 
the remainder in a wheelchair.  She was cared for there by Captain H. P. Havron, 
a World War veteran, who after the war became an employee at the hospital.  The 
patient and her nurse soon became warm personal friends, and their friendship 
resulted in marriage in 1936.
  Hubert T. Miller of Palmdale, Cal., an aged friend of Mr. and Mrs. Havron, at 
the request of the bereaved husband, notified Miss Annie O. McKinley of 
Salisbury, a niece of Mrs. Havron, of the latter's death.
  In his letter, dated Feb. 12th, Mr. Miller stated that he went to the hospital 
to see Mrs. Havron, but got there too late to see her alive.  Among other 
things, his letter had this to say: "I knew your aunt, and in her passing have 
lost one of the most lovely acquaintances formed in my 82 years of life, and 
feel the loss greatly.  Her husband is heart-broken, for his wife was one of the 
most uncomplaining and patient persons I ever met, or hope to meet."

Meyersdale Republican, February 27, 1941