OBIT: Katharine (KEIDEL) HUMMEL, 1941, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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KATHARINE HUMMEL

  The Meyersdale community was saddened this week by the death of Mrs. Katharine 
Hummel, wife of James B. Hummel, well known grocery merchant of Meyersdale, for 
Mrs. Hummel had a wide circle of friends and relatives among whom she served 
with quiet devotion as she did also in the various organizations to which she 
belonged.  She passed away at 3:05 Saturday morning, April 5, 1941, in the 
Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, where she underwent an operation for gall stones 
on March 26.  Although her condition was serious from the beginning, she did 
show improvement on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, but early Friday there 
was a turn for the worse, and nothing that could be done by the best of doctors 
or nurses could save her life.
  Mrs. Hummel was born in Germany February 16, 1878, coming to America when 
three years of age with her parents, William and Anna (Struider) Keidel, who 
took up their residence in this community.  She is survived by her husband, 
James B. Hummel, and one sister, Mrs. Glenn Crowe.
  Her body rested in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Crowe on Olinger Street, 
which was originally the Keidel home in which she spent her girlhood, from 
Saturday evening until Tuesday afternoon when it was taken to the Amity Reformed 
Church where funeral services were conducted.
  On Monday evening the American Legion Auxiliary, of which she was a member, 
went in a body to the home to pay last respects to a valued member.  A short 
service was conducted by the Auxiliary, at the close of which each member laid a 
small bouquet beside her making a fringe of flowers at the edge of her coffin.  
On Tuesday afternoon short services were read by her pastor, Rev. Nelson C. 
Brown, at the home for the family and intimate friends and relatives before 
proceeding to the church at 2:30, where a host of friends were waiting.  The 
church was filled to capacity for the last rites which were conducted by Rev. 
Brown and Dr. B. A. Black, former pastor of the church.  Members of Amity Church 
Missionary Society, of which she was an active and devoted member, serving many 
years as an officer and to her death as treasurer, were honorary pallbearers.  
Six members of the American Legion of which her husband is an active member, 
served as pallbearers.  She was a member of the Eastern Star and of the 
Meyersdale Garden Club, which organizations were also represented at her 
funeral.  There were very many beautiful floral tributes.
  Interment was made in Union Cemetery under the direction of W. C. Price and 
son, morticians.
  Among those most grieved by her loss are her nephew and wife, Mr. and Mrs. 
William Crowe, and her niece, Elizabeth Crowe Werner and her husband, Paul 
Werner, all of whom have had business opportunities made for them by their uncle 
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Hummel, in the merchantile firms known as the Meyersdale 
Unit Store and Community Market.

Meyersdale Republican, April 10, 1941