OBIT: Cora (LIVENGOOD) KIDNER, 1946, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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CORA LIVENGOOD KIDNER

  Mrs. Cora Kidner, wife of Robert A. Kidner, service station owner and former 
burgess of Salisbury, died at about 4:20 a.m. on Saturday, May 4th, in the Hazel 
McGilvery Hospital, of thyroid crisis.  Mrs. Kidner had been admitted to the 
hospital on the previous Sunday when she suffered a fracture of the hip, but had 
been ill, though not bedfast, for several years. She was 70 years, 7 months and 
21 days in age at her death.
  She was born in Salisbury on September 13, 1875, daughter of Jeremiah J. and 
Lydia (Lichty) Livengood.  Both her parents were members of pioneer families in 
Somerset County.  Her father conducted a blacksmith shop, where Town Hall now 
stands, and was known far and wide as a wagon carriage, sleigh maker, and as a 
just man, because of his decisions as Burgess of Salisbury for several years.
  She was married to Mr. Kidner on September 27, 1905, by the Rev. John H. 
Knepper, in the family home on Ord Street, the oldest house in town, and now the 
property of the Water Commission.  She spent all her life here.
  During her younger years she gave lessons on the guitar, on which instrument 
she was quite accomplished.  She was extremely skillful with a needle and made 
many fine pieces of lace and embroidery.  As late as the winter of 1943, she 
knit 30 sweaters for soldiers of World War II.  She was a faithful church member 
as long as her church, the Brethren, was here, and she was able to attend. 
  In addition to her husband, she is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mary Williams 
of Arlington, Virginia, and Mrs. M. E. Statler of Salisbury.  She was preceded 
in death by her three brothers, Truman, who died in infancy; Marshall, painter 
and paper-hanger, Meyersdale; and Samuel, blacksmith and painter, Salisbury.
  Funeral services were conducted in the Thomas Funeral Chapel on Monday, May 6, 
at 2:30 p.m., with the Rev. George E. Bowersox, Jr., officiating.  Interment in 
the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, with Mortician Stanley M. Thomas in charge.  Pallbearers 
were C. S. Lichliter, Charles E. Gray, Frank F. Petry, John Harding, David 
Cochrane and Frank L. Engle.  All business houses in Salisbury were closed 
during the funeral.
  Among those from out of town who attended the funeral were Mrs. Mary Williams 
and daughter Anna, of Arlington, Va.; Mrs. Mabel Koontz of Huntington, Pa.; 
Allen Williams of Pittsburgh; Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Williams of New Philadelphia, 
Ohio; W. S. Livengood, Mrs. Frances Imler, Mrs. W. H. Dill, Mr. and Mrs. George 
Hady, Mrs. Mary Derry and Gladys Livengood, Meyersdale.

Meyersdale Republican, May 9, 1946