OBIT: Lydia (BEACHLY) RAUCH, 1944, native of Somerset County, PA

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LYDIA RAUCH

  Mrs. Lydia Beachly Rauch, formerly of Meyersdale, died suddenly in her home in 
Lakewood, Ohio, last Monday.  Apparently she succumbed to a heart attack while 
preparing her midday meal, as she was found lying dead on the floor near her gas 
range in which the gas was still burning in the oven in which were the charred 
remains of a dinner.
  For the last four years, Mrs. Rauch had been living alone.  The discovery of 
her death was made by a woman who came to her home every evening to spend the 
night with her.
  She was born in Meyersdale, the youngest child of the late Dr. U. M. and Mary 
Beachly, nearly 73 years ago.  She was educated in the Meyersdale public schools 
and Prof. John D. Meese's Meyersdale Academy.  Before her marriage to Dr. Kimmel 
Rauch, a young medical practitioner in Meyersdale for several years, she was 
engaged with an older sister, Miss Grace Beachly, in the millinery business in 
the building now occupied by the Pennsylvania Electric Co., on Center Street.
  Shortly after their marriage, Dr. and Mrs. Rauch moved to Johnstown where he 
died in 1909, after they had been married only four years.  Dr. Rauch was a very 
fine man and popular physician.  They were a very happy and devoted couple.  Her 
husband's untimely death was not only a great sorrow to her but also to many 
friends.
  After her husband's death Mrs. Rauch went to Cleveland, Ohio, to live with a 
sister, Mrs. Emma Berkley.  They established a home in Lakewood, a suburb of 
Cleveland, where she spent the rest of her life.  After Mrs. Berkley's death 
some years ago, another sister, Anna, the widow of Dr. C. W. Walker, of 
Plymouth, Ohio, lived with her until her death four years ago.
  Mrs. Rauch is survived by one brother, E. M. Beachly, Pittsburgh, oldest 
member of the Dr. U. M. Beachly family; three nieces, Mrs. Charles S. Evans, 
Ebensburg; Mrs. Emma Pringle, Portage, and Mrs. David Reese, Johnstown; and two 
nephews, William and Frank Beachly, sons of E. M. Beachly, both in the armed 
forces of the United States.
  Two of the nieces went to Lakewood, Ohio, and had the remains of their aunt 
brought to Meyersdale for interment in the family lot in Union Cemetery.  Burial 
arrangements here were in charge of W. C. Price and Son.  The body, on arrival 
here this Thursday afternoon was taken immediately from the train to the 
cemetery for committal to the grave by Rev. Kenneth B. Ashman, pastor of the 
Main Street Brethren Church, of which Mrs. Rauch's parents were charter members.
  The following relatives and friends of the deceased gathered at the cemetery 
for the final rites: Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Beachly, Pittsburgh; Former Judge and 
Mrs. Charles S. Evans, and their son, Charles, and daughter, Mrs. Frank Whitman, 
Ebensburg; Mrs. Emma Pringle, Portage; Mr. and Mrs. David Reese, Attorney Andrew 
Creighton, Miss Myrtle Walters, Miss Bird Kinkead and Mrs. H. R. Knepper and 
daughter, Mrs. Edward Rae, Johnstown; Mrs. Mary O. Cook, Miss Kate Olinger, Mr. 
and Mrs. D. J. Fike, Mrs. Fanny G. Lichty and others, Meyersdale.

Meyersdale Republican, March 16, 1944