OBIT: Edith JUST, 1916, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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Just, Miss Edith

  As we go to press, word comes to us that Miss Edith just died at 15 
minutes before five o'clock this evening. A wave of universal regret 
goes out over the town that one whose life was so useful and whose 
character so beautiful should thus untimely be called hence. The 
funeral will be held Saturday afternoon, meeting at the house at 1:30 
o'clock. Interment will be made in the Union Cemetery, following which 
the funeral services will be held in the Brethren Church, Rev. H. L. 
Coughenour, the pastor of the deceased to officiate. (Obituary in next 
issue)

Meyersdale Commercial, Mar. 16, 1916

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  In last week's issue of the Commercial a brief announcement of the 
death of Miss Edith Just was made. She passed away on the afternoon of 
Thursday, March 16 at 4:45 o'clock following an illness of a few 
months. Miss Just was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus A. Just and she 
was born in the house adjoining the one in which she died. She attended 
the public schools of Meyersdale and graduated in the Academy course 
with the class of 1904 and following which she took up a business 
course in a commercial school at this place. Then she accepted a 
position with the Second National Bank of Meyersdale as bookkeeper and 
stenographer which place she filled with remarkable success and 
fidelity up to the time of her serious illness, she became conversant 
with all phases of the work. In church activities her energy knew no 
abatement; she was a member of the Brethren Church and in Sunday School 
she handled the finances in a very creditable and systematic manner. 
She was president of the Woman's league consisting of seventy members 
of which she was the youngest. When hardly able to attend church and 
Sunday School, she kept on going, Sunday after Sunday, trusting in her 
Lord for strength, always trying to be useful and aiming to make others 
happy. Her death has certainly left a void in the church and in the 
community. Her good works will continue as a blessing to others. 
Besides her parents, two sisters survive: Miss Sadie and Miss Florence. 
The funeral was held on Saturday afternoon at her late home, corner of 
Broadway and Center Street, at 1:30 o'clock, and following the 
conveying of the loved form to its final resting place in Union 
Cemetery, funeral services were held in the Brethren Church, her 
pastor, Rev. H. L. Coughenour, officiating assisted by Rev. W. M. Howe. 
The pall bearers were members of the bank with whom she was associated 
in her daily activities and members of the choir, of which she was an 
important factor: J. H. Bowman, C. Q. Griffith, Park Weimer, H. M. 
Cook, John Swearman and Maurice Clark.

Meyersdale Commercial, Mar. 23, 1916