OBIT: Ruth D. (BOWER) HOSMER, 1941, Confluence, Somerset County, PA

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RUTH D. HOSMER

  Confluence and vicinity was much shocked and saddened when it was reported 
that Mrs. Ruth D. Hosmer, wife of Stephen Hosmer of Wilkinsburg, had died in the 
Montfiore Hospital, Pittsburgh, after a brief illness, on Saturday morning, 
January 18.  Mrs. Hosmer had entered the hospital on Monday and underwent a 
major operation on Wednesday which was successful.  Bronchial pneumonia and 
other complications developed causing her passing.  Her mother, Mrs. William 
Bower, passed away nine months ago.  Funeral services were held in the Wareham 
Funeral Home in Wilkinsburg on Monday night.  The body was brought here on 
Tuesday and laid in state in the Lutheran church from 1 to 2 o'clock.  After 
short funeral services, Rev. Shannon, pastor, officiating, interment was made in 
the Baptist Cemetery in charge of Charles Humbert, undertaker.
  Mrs. Hosmer is survived by her husband and two sons, Roger and William; her 
father, William Bower of Friendsville; three sisters, Miss Beatrice Bower and 
Mrs. Dorothy Friend of Confluence; and Mrs. Mary Pronesti of Boswell; five 
brothers, Lloyd, Walter, Clyde and James of Confluence, and Roy, of Wilkinsburg.  
She was in her 47th year.  She was a lovely Christian woman, a devoted wife and 
mother, an ideal sister.  A host of friends had been looking forward to the day 
when her husband would retire and she could make her home in Confluence, where 
she loved to live.  Before her marriage she made her home with an aunt in 
Somerset.  On the maternal side she was a descendent of the Peter Stutzman 
family, well-known in the early educational history of Somerset County,.  Mrs. 
Hosmer was the daughter of William Bower of Friendsville, Md., and the late 
Margaret (Stutzman) Bower.

Meyersdale Republican, January 23, 1941