OBIT: Nancy (Bockes) KRETCHMAN, 1930, native of Somerset County, PA

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NANCY KRETCHMAN

  Mrs. Nancy Kretchman, widow of Manasses Kretchman, succumbed on June 12 to the 
infirmities of old age.  She had been ailing a long time before death came to 
her relief.  Her husband died many years ago.  One of her four children died in 
early childhood, and the others also have been dead for a considerable time.  
Her children were Monroe, Emma, Jeremiah and Savilla Kretchman.
  Mrs. Kretchman was born in Elk Lick Township, April 22, 1838, and at the time 
of her death was aged 92 years, 1 month and 20 days.  She was a daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Lewis Bockes, and her mother was a daughter of John and Barbara 
Livengood Keim, who died at the age of 96 and 94 years, respectively, after 
having lived to enjoy each other's companionship as husband and wife for a 
little more than 75 years.  With an ancestry noted for longevity such as that, 
it is not to be wondered at, that Mrs. Kretchman reached the great age she did. 
Her mother also was a nonogenarion, as were also others of her maternal 
relations.
  Mrs. Kretchman was the eldest of a family of ten children, five of whom 
survive, as follows: William, Samuel and Daniel Bockes, of Grundy Center, Iowa; 
Lewis Bockes, Mrs. Barbara Shultz and Mrs. Ellen Converse, of Amity, Oregon.  
Two brothers and one sister preceded her to the grave, namely, John and Henry 
Bockes, and Mrs. Barbara Kinsinger.
  Mrs. Kretchman was a wife and mother of the finest type, and was greatly 
beloved by a large circle of friends.  She was a steadfast member of the 
Lutheran Church for many years.  Her funeral was held at the St. Paul (Wilhelm) 
Reformed Church, in Elk Lick Township, not far from where most of her long life 
was spent.  The obsequies were conducted by Rev. S. D. Sigler, and the burial 
arrangements were in charge of Funeral Director J. L. Tressler, of Meyersdale.  
Interment was in the Wilhelm, or St. Paul Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, June 19, 1930