OBIT: Adelaide E. "Addie" (GARDILL) PHILSON, 1943, Meyersdale, Somerset County, 
PA

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ADELAIDE E. (ADDIE) PHILSON

Mrs. S. B. Philson Aged 81, Expires
Was a Resident of Meyersdale Since 1882

  Death came to Mrs. S. B. Philson, one of Meyersdale's best known and beloved 
ladies, after an illness of five days following a heart attack, at 2:35 Friday 
afternoon, Jan. 15, 1943, at her home next to the Citizen's National Bank on 
Center Street, where she and her husband have resided for the past 60 years.  
Save for a few periods of illness in recent years, Mrs. Philson led an active 
life in her home and maintained her interest in the affairs of the community 
until her last illness and death at the good age of 81 years, 8 months and 28 
days.  She was born in Berlin, Pa., April 17, 1861, the daughter of John G. and 
Hanna (Guss) Gardill.  In 1880 Addie Gardill married Samuel B. Philson, then a 
young man entering the banking business, the profession of his grandfather, 
father and other members of the Philson family in Berlin.  Two years later the 
young couple moved to Meyersdale where Mr. Philson took charge of the bank 
already established here by his father, Samuel R. Philson, and as head of which 
he has continued ever since.
  Mrs. Philson entered the social life of the then growing town of Meyersdale, 
and connected with the Lutheran Church where she became an active member.  She 
was a charter member of the missionary society and for many years was head of 
the primary department of the Sunday School.  Throughout life her cheerful 
friendliness brought to her a host of friends.  Her front porch, centrally 
located as it is, was always the meeting place of groups and friendly 
gatherings, and through the years when Mrs. Philson sat upon her porch she had a 
friendly greeting for all passers by.
  One son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Philson, Robert Harry, who when he grew to 
manhood, also entered the banking business with his father.  Beside her husband, 
son, and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Philson is survived by three grandchildren, 
namely, Samuel R. Philson, Beacon, N.Y., Margaret, wife of J. Warren Shaver, 
Johnstown, and Rebecca, wife of James McClure, and by three great-grandchildren.  
Also one sister survives, Mrs. Annie M. Brubaker, Berlin, and one brother, James 
D. Gardill, Philadelphia.  Word of the death of another sister, Mrs. Ellen Ehmen 
of Sunnyside, Wash., was received at the Philson home the day before Mrs. 
Philson passed away.
  Funeral services were conducted at the Philson home Sunday afternoon at 2 
o'clock by her pastor, Rev. R. M. Dunkelberger of Zion Lutheran Church.  Burial 
was made in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Berlin, directed by W. C. Price & Son.
  Among those who attended the obsequies were Samuel R. Philson, Beacon, N.Y., 
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shayer, Johnstown, Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Rowe, Philadelphia, 
and other nieces and nephews from Berlin and Pittsburgh.

Meyersdale Republican, January 21, 1943