OBIT: Nancy Elvira (Walls) LEWIS, 1941, native of Somerset County, PA

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NANCY ELVIRA WALLS LEWIS

Grantsville, Maryland

  For the second time in less than a week a member of the Walls family has been 
taken by death.  Mrs. Nancy Elvira Walls Lewis, wife of Anthony C. Lewis, died 
suddenly early Sunday morning, March 2, at her farm home near here.  Mrs. Lewis 
was a sister of the late Rev. J. E. Walls, who died last Monday and for whom 
funeral services were conducted last Thursday.
  Mrs. Lewis had recently been quite ill of pneumonia and had spent three weeks 
at the Hazel McGilvery Hospital in Meyersdale.  She was removed to her home 
about a month ago and apparently was recovering satisfactorily.  She appeared to 
feel exceptionally well on Sunday morning, her family said.  After admonishing 
some of the younger members of the family to "hurry and get ready for Sunday 
school", she sat down to glance over a Sunday school paper.  Her husband found 
her dead when he returned to the room a few moments later.
  Mrs. Lewis was 55 years of age.  She was born in the Elk Lick Township, 
Somerset County, Pa., October 2, 1885, a daughter of the late John Walls and 
Sarah McClosky Walls Butler.  She moved to this community with her parents when 
quite young and spent practically her entire life in this section.  She and Mr. 
Lewis had been married about thirty-five years.  During their early married life 
they lived on a farm on Negro Mountain and in 1918 moved to their present home a 
few miles west of here.  Mrs. Lewis was a good wife and mother, her first 
interest being her home and family.  She was also a kind and considerate 
neighbor and her loss will be felt keenly, not only by her family, but by her 
many friends in this and neighboring communities.
  In her early girlhood she became a member of the Grantsville Lutheran Church 
and remained a faithful and devout member of that congregation until her death.
  In her passing Mrs. Lewis leaves her bereaved husband, her mother, who resides 
at Accident, and the following children: John Lewis, Frank Lewis, Rosie (Mrs. 
Elmer) Miller, Grantsville, Ray, Edna and Carl Lewis, at home, Nellie (Mrs. 
Clyde) Yommer, Jennings, Florence (Mrs. Arthur) Wright, Stoystown, Charles 
Lewis, Meadville, Pa., Joseph Lewis and Elmer Lewis, Pinto.  Also surviving are 
two brothers, Charles Walls and John Walls, Grantsville; a half-brother, Arthur 
Butler, Accident; three half-sisters, Mrs. Fred Dickinson, Chester, Pa., Mrs. 
Lee Durst, Breckenridge, Pa., and Mrs. William Simmons, Accident, and eight 
grandchildren.
  The Rev. Samuel D. Sigler, pastor of her church, conducted funeral services 
here at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, March 5, and interment was in the 
Grantsville Cemetery under the supervision of William Winterberg, local 
mortician.  Pallbearers were Scott Duckworth, Albert Reichenbecher, Charles 
Reichenbecher, Ernest Ringer, William Menges and Joel A. Beachy.

Meyersdale Republican, March 6, 1941