OBIT: Ruby (HOOVER) RAVENSCROFT, 1941, Sand Patch R.D., Somerset County, PA

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RUBY RAVENSCROFT

  Mrs. Ruby (Hoover) Ravenscroft, 44, wife of James A. Ravenscroft of Sand Patch 
R.D. 1, died last Thursday in Community Hospital, Somerset, after an illness of 
heart trouble.  Mrs. Ravenscroft was the mother of 13 children, 12 of whom 
survive:  Mrs. Harry Smith of Meyersdale, Mrs. Donald Lottig of Sand Patch, Mrs. 
Silas Pugh of St. Paul, Mabel, Merle, James, Shirley, LaVerne, Norman, Charles, 
Blaine and Bernard, at home.
  An infant daughter passed away two months ago.  Two brothers, Charles E. 
Hoover of Baltimore, Md., and Robert Hoover, of Iowa, and two sisters, Mrs. H. 
J. Secrest, of Rockwood, and Miss Mabel Hoover of Boswell also survive.  The 
deceased was a daughter of Hiram and Minerva (Kuhs) Hoover, both deceased, and 
was born in Somerset County.
  Funeral services were conducted at the late home Sunday afternoon, by Rev. J. 
E. Gindlesperger.  Interment was in Union Cemetery in Meyersdale under the 
direction of H. R. Konhaus, Meyersdale mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, October 16, 1941