OBIT: Margaret Ann (SNYDER) LOHR, 1941, Somerfield, Somerset County, PA

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MARGARET ANN LOHR

Addison, Pa.

  Mrs. Margaret Ann Lohr died Sunday morning, Jan. 19, 1941, at the home of her 
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Newton L. Diehl, one mile east of 
Somerfield on the National Pike, where she made her home.  Mrs. Lohr was born at 
Grantsville, Md., July 15, 1850, and was aged 90 years, 6 months, 4 days at the 
time of her death.  She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Snyder.  She 
joined the German Lutheran Church when quite young and later she joined English 
Lutheran Church in Cove, Md.  She was married to William Lohr in 1877, and to 
this union four children were born: Edward, who died when quite young, Marshall 
Lohr, of Randolph, Ohio, Wood Lohr, of Hopwood, Pa., and Florence Diehl, 
Somerfield.  She also had two stepdaughters of whom only one survives, Mrs. Emma 
B. George, of Jennerstown.  One sister survives, Mrs. Thomas Stanton, of 
Bittinger, Md.
  Funeral services were held in the Lutheran Church, Addison, Pa., Tuesday 
morning at 10:30 o'clock by her pastor, Rev. James Shannon of Confluence.  
Pallbearers were Dan Henson, Troy Glass, Grant Humbertson, Scott Duckworth, 
George Blubaugh and Earl Turey.  Interment in Addison Cemetery on the family lot 
beside her husband by mortician Harry B. Rishebarger.

Meyersdale Republican, January 30, 1941