OBIT: Mrs. Mary PEARSON, 1931, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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MARY PEARSON

  Mrs. Mary Pearson, who for the last five years made her home with her son and 
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pearson, died at the Pearson home at the 
south side of Gay Street, Thursday, Sept. 3, at the age of 84 years.  She was 
born in Lonaconing, Md., and lived there the greater portion of her life.  Her 
husband died two score years or more ago, but she is survived by two sons and 
three daughters as follows:  John Pearson, of Roanoke, Va.; Mrs. Mamie Wilson, 
of Luke, Md.; Mrs. William Reiber, of Lonaconing, Md.; Mrs. Amelia Ritchey, of 
Baltimore, Md.; and Charles Pearson, of Salisbury.
  In the death of Mrs. Pearson, her children have lost a most kind and loving 
mother, and the community a woman of lofty Christian character, who was a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church practically all of her long life, and died as 
she lived, a Christian.  She probably would have lived considerably longer had 
she not fallen and broken one of her hips, last February.  Following that severe 
injury, she was in a hospital in Cumberland, Md., for seven weeks, and since 
then had to remain in bed much of the time, and helped from one place to another 
about the house.  In trying to get out of bed without assistance about a week 
before she died she fell to the floor, the shock of which undoubtedly hastened 
her death, which also was in some measure due to the infirmities of old age.  
She may also have had a paralytic stroke.
  Her remains were taken to Lonaconing, where most of her friends and 
acquaintances reside, and there at 2 p.m., the funeral service was held at the 
home of her daughter, Mrs. William Reiber, conducted by a Methodist minister of 
that town.  Interment was made in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, September 10, 1931