OBIT: Mary Elizabeth MEYERS, 1931, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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MARY ELIZABETH MEYERS

  Mary Elizabeth, daughter of George C. and Margaret Meyers, was born at 
Meyersdale, November 25, 1910.  On May 19, 1914, she was dedicated to the Lord 
in holy baptism by Dr. A. E. Truxal.  She was instructed in the "Way of 
Salvation," and assumed in her own name the vows of loyalty to Jesus Christ by 
uniting with the church, April 5, 1925, with the first class confirmed here by 
the present pastor of Amity Reformed Church.  She was educated in the public 
schools of the community and was graduated from the Meyersdale High School with 
the class of 1928.
  Two weeks ago she was taken ill with scarlet fever.  She was seriously sick 
from the very onset of the disease, and grew worse gradually until her death 
early January 26, at the age of 20 years and 2 months.
  She leaves to mourn her loss her father and mother, three sisters, Mrs. Emma 
Shockey of Rockwood, and Anna May and Evelyn at home; one brother, Ralph, also 
at home, and a large circle of relatives and friends.
  Mary was a quiet, home-loving girl, of amiable disposition and gentle ways, 
who found her greatest joy in the bosom of the family, making herself useful and 
helpful to the other members.  Her delight was to serve others rather than to 
permit others to serve her.  Being seriousminded and mature for her years, 
frivolous things had no appeal for her.  Her thought and attention were devoted 
to the worth while things of life.  She was deeply attached to the church and 
Sunday school class of which she was a member.
  Not only the members of her family, but her friends and acquaintances bear 
testimony to her gentleness of disposition and beauty of character.  The memory 
of her sweet spirit and life of helpful service will be a blessed influence upon 
all who knew her while life lasts.  As the poet so beautifully expresses it: "To 
live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die."
  Everything that medical science, skilled nursing, and tender care could do, 
was done for her, but none of these things, nor all of them combined could keep 
her here.  It must be that her life work was finished and that she was prepared 
to enter upon that higher and nobler sphere of life which God has in store for 
them that love Him.
  Private funeral services were held on the porch of the home Monday afternoon 
at 1:30, in charge of Rev. B. A. Black, pastor of Amity Reformed Church.  Burial 
was made in the Union Cemetery.  W. C. Price was the undertaker in charge.

Meyersdale Republican, January 29, 1931