OBIT: Sarah (LIVENGOOD) HEITZMAN, 1948, formerly of Somerset County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library. Transcribed and proofread by: Richard Boyer. Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ SARAH L. HEITZMAN Sarah Livengood Heitzman, a native of Garrett County, Maryland, and most of whose girlhood was lived in Grantsville, Md., and Salisbury, Pa., died suddenly in her home in Seattle, Wash., on Wednesday, March 3, 1948, near the end of the 82nd year of her life. She was born April 18, 1866, on the farm now owned and occupied by Albert Ringer, in the beautiful Maryland Cove, about midway between Keyser's Ridge and Accident. The fourth daughter and eighth child among the ten children of the late Samuel J. and Nancy (Lichty) Livengood, she moved before she was quite one year old, with her parents and elder brothers and sisters, to the Cornucopia (Sterner) farm, now known as the Casselman Hotel farm at Grantsville, Md. Seven years later, in 1874, the family moved to Salisbury, Pa., where Sarah spent her girlhood until she was 18 years old when she went to live with Livengood relatives at Milledgeville, Ill., where she met and married two years later, Oliver Heitzman, a fine young man of about her own age, who was a foster son of her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Livengood. In 1897, the Livengoods and Heitzmans migrated from Illinois to Palouse, a small town in the great wheat belt of Eastern Washington. Oliver Heitzman engaged in farming and teaming there until his death from a heart ailment in 1914. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Heitzman devoted herself to the rearing of her three young sons and continued to live at Palouse, near the Idaho border, until 1923 when she and her boys moved to Seattle with the Joe Livengoods. Her three sons are now prominent and successful businessmen in the state of Washington. Frank, the eldest, is general manager of a large wheat growers' association, with headquarters at Connell, Wash. He has supervision of 14 large warehouses for the storage and handling of grain. He has a staff of thirty warehousemen. John, the second son, is editor and general manager of the University District Semi-Weekly Herald and printing plant, in Seattle, and adjoining the University of Washington. Robert, youngest of the three sons, is editor and publisher of a seamen's journal at Bremerton, adjoining the Puget Sound U.S. Navy Yard. Three brothers - Ananias, Urias and Peter L. Livengood - and four sisters - Mary, first wife of Milton C. Horner of Meyersdale; Miss Nancy Livengood who died several years ago at the age of 83; Fanny, Mrs. A. D. Gnagey, and Annie, Mrs. Robert Scott - preceded her in death; two brothers, William S. Livengood, 87, editor emeritus of the Meyersdale Republican, and Jonas B. Livengood, 79, retired printer and journalist of Santa Cruz, Calif., survive. Surviving Mrs. Heitzman also are eight grandchildren - Mrs. Arthur Cocco, Palo Alto, Calif.; Jean Heitzman, Spokane, Wash.; James O. Heitzman, Marine Corps corporal; Teresa, with her parents at Connell, Wash.; Mrs. Joseph Sheets, Bremerton, Wash.; Robert E., Joanne and Joyce Heitzman, students at University of Washington, Seattle. She has left also five great-grandchildren. Mrs. Heitzman was an accomplished reading entertainer and story-teller - she was the life of any social gathering she attended. She spent most of the years of her long widowhood in doing deeds of kindness for friends and neighbors and sick and afflicted. She was an expert in the culinary art and delighted in cooking dinners for the delectation of her relatives and friends. She was an active member of the University Baptist church, Seattle. Her son John writes: "I will forever have the greatest satisfaction that Mother's going was of the kind she herself would have chosen. She was active, alert and happy, spending her time doing good for others. I have never known a more beloved elderly person in our University Baptist fellowship. "On the day before she died, she went to her Red Cross unit where she sewed with friends from 10 a.m. till about 3:30 p.m. Then she and my mother-in-law, Mrs. Risley, went to a hospital to visit a sick friend in the church. Then they called at the Virginia Mason Hospital, where my wife has been working in the office, for a little visit. From there they went to a downtown apartment house to visit a shut-in friend. "At 5 o'clock, my wife and I picked up Mother and Mrs. Risley and brought them to our home to have dinner with us. After dinner, I took our two mothers to the church for Wednesday evening meeting. Mother seemed well as ever and all of us were certainly shocked the next morning. "At 6 o'clock the next morning, the landlord of the apartment in which she lived telephoned me to come at once, that my mother was very ill. While I was dressing, he called again and said "bring a doctor'. I got to her apartment within 20 minutes, but she had already gone. "She had been to the bathroom and upon returning to her room, lay on her davenport and tapped on the wall to attract the attention of the lady next door, who went to her side. All she could say was 'Call my son.' She must have slipped away a very few minutes later. As near as we could tell, her heart had given out. The day before she told my wife that occasionally she had severe pains in the upper part of her chest." Funeral services were held in her home at 11 o'clock, Saturday, March 6, after which her body was taken to Palouse to be buried by the side of her husband. Meyersdale Republican, April 1, 1948