OBIT: Anna Maria (WILEY) RESH, 1947, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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ANNA MARIA RESH

  Mrs. Anna Maria Resh, aged 77 years, widow of Levi Rush, died at the home of 
her daughter, Mrs. James Schaefer, near Grantsville, Sunday morning, October 19.  
She was in ill health for several years and was stricken with a cerebral 
hemorrahage three weeks ago, which caused her death.
  She was the daughter of the late James P. and Barbara Meyers Wiley, and was 
born near Bittinger, September 19, 1870.  Her husband died in 1937.
  Surviving are the following children: Roy Resh, Canton, O.; Mrs. Carrie 
Butler, Elkins, W.Va.; Earl Resh, Jennings; Mrs. Lucretia Legeer, Ernest Orvis, 
Brison, Resley and Mrs. Minta Schaefer, Grantsville; 32 grandchildren, and 21 
great-grandchildren; also three sisters, Mrs. Ida Hager, Akron, O., Mrs. 
Lucretia Groves, Frostburg, and Mrs. Harriet Resh, Grantsville and three 
brothers, Ralph Wiley, New Germany, Harvey Wiley, Accident, and Grant Wiley, 
Grantsville.
  Mrs. Resh was a life long member of the Bittinger Lutheran Church and lived 
with her daughter, Mrs. Schaefer her last five years.
  Funeral services were held at the Bittinger Lutheran Church, Wednesday 
afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.  Rev. Curt H. Runze officiating.  Interment in the 
church cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, October 23, 1947