OBIT: Bernadine (Knecht) McKENZIE, 1930, West Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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BERNADINE KNECHT McKENZIE

  Mrs. Bernadine Knecht McKenzie, wife of John McKenzie, died at the home of her 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Knecht, West Salisbury, Feb. 15th, aged 27 years, 
10 months and 5 days.  She died of tuberculosis, from which malady she suffered 
a long time, and was confined to her bed since about the first of last September 
at the home of her parents, who did all for her comfort and welfare that a 
loving mother and father could do.  Her bereaved husband, who is a railroad 
employee, with headquarters in Pittsburgh, had to be absent from his loving 
companion most of the time, but he was constantly with her in spirit, while 
striving at his employment for the maintenance and welfare of his wife and 
children.
  Mrs. McKenzie was a good woman, and from the time she was old enough to do 
housework, she was ever ready to go into any home to work where there was 
sickness, and help needed.  She was of a kind and friendly disposition, and was 
loved and respected by all who knew her.  She bore her long affliction bravely 
and with Christian fortitude, and when she realized that there was no hope for 
her recovery, she was resigned to her fate, and in the language of William 
Cullen Bryant, in his sublime poem, "Thanatopsis," she was sustained and soothed 
by an unfaltering trust, and approached her grave like one that wraps the 
drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
  In addition to being survived by her parents and her husband, Mrs. McKenzie is 
also survived by three children, namely, Marceline, John and James, who are 
living with their maternal grandparents.  Mrs. McKenzie was one of a family of 
eleven children, eight of whom survive her, as follows:  Marie, wife of Fred 
Miller, of Kittanning, Pa.; Ruth, wife of William Weber, of Cleveland, Ohio; 
Francis J., Regina, Martin, Carl, Reta and Jane, at home.
  The funeral service was held at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, at St. Michael's Roman 
Catholic Church, West Salisbury, of which Mrs. McKenzie was a devout and 
faithful member.  The service was conducted by Rev. H. T. Miller, and the Very 
Rev. J. J. Brady, of Meyersdale.  Members of the latter's choir, assisted with 
the music.  The obsequies were attended by a very large concourse of neighbors, 
friends and sorrowing relatives, many from Somerset, Meyersdale, Grantsville, 
and other places.  Among those from a considerable distance who attended the 
funeral were Mrs. Julius Henry and Mrs. Leon F. Adams, of Steubenville, Ohio; 
Mr. and Mrs. William Weber, of Cleveland, Ohio; Michael Hartman, of Monongahela, 
Pa.; Mrs. Bridget Burkhart, of Donora, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Martin T. Meyers, and 
Joseph J. Meyers, of Pittsburgh; Mrs. Elmer Taylor, Mrs. Margaret Long, and Mrs. 
Josephine Roman, of Cumberland, Md.
  The burial arrangement was in charge of Funeral Director J. L. Tressler, of 
Meyersdale.  There were many beautiful floral tributes.  Interment was made in 
St. Michael's Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, February 20, 1930