OBIT: Martha A. (WALKER) REED, 1946, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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MARTHA A. REED

  Mrs. Martha A. Reed, 89, resident of Meyersdale for 60 years, died Sunday, 
July 14, in a private sanitarium in Philadelphia, from ailments resulting from 
old age.  She was born Oct. 9, 1855, and was married to Joseph C. Reed, March 
28, 1877.  Mr. Reed was a former burgess of Meyersdale and hotel proprietor here 
for many years.  Mr. Reed died 13 years ago.
  Mrs. Reed is survived by three children - Dr. Margaret Lewis, noted 
bacteriologist, wife of Dr. W. H. Lewis, Hamilton Ct., Philadelphia; Jessica, 
wife of Stephan Botsford of Staten Island, N.Y., and Joseph W. Reed, Meyersdale.  
One sister, Miss Maud J. Walker, Pittsburgh, also survives.
  The body was brought to the Reed home on Meyers Avenue, Tuesday afternoon.  
Funeral services were conducted there this (Thursday) afternoon by Rev. H. K. 
Hilner, pastor of Zion Lutheran Church.  Interment in Union Cemetery under the 
direction of W. C. Price & Son.
  Since the death of her husband Mrs. Reed has spent most of the time away from 
Meyersdale, with one or the other of her daughters, but love for her home 
brought her back each summer for a few months, even though in recent years she 
was quite lame, the result of having broken a leg several years ago, and also 
almost blind the last few years.  During the past year she was cared for in the 
Griffith Nursing Hospital, 38th and Chestnut, near the Lewis home in 
Philadelphia, where her daughter, Margaret, visited her every day.
  Mrs. Reed was a member of the Episcopal Church and for many years she and her 
husband were leaders in the little Episcopal Church on Meyers Ave., which at one 
time was the place of worship of quite an active little parish, but which has 
been closed for a long while owing to the death and removal of former 
parishoners.

Meyersdale Republican, July 18, 1946