OBIT: Delta Eulilla ROWLAND, Dr., 1941, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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DELTA EULILLA ROWLAND

  Mrs. Annie Petry recently received word from one of her Western friends, 
informing her of the death of her niece, Dr. Delta Eulilla Rowland, who was a 
popular physician of Sunnyside, Wash., for some years, and was known to many of 
The Republican's readers in several states, including Pennsylvania, where she 
visited relatives in Salisbury before she entered the medical profession, and 
where her mother grew to womanhood.
  Dr. Rowland is said to have been greatly overworked at caring for influenza 
patients in the town and vicinity where she was located, and where the dreaded 
disease has been very prevalent for some time.  She was taken to a hospital 
there, Christmas Day, and died there of pneumonia Jan. 1, 1941, greatly lamented 
by many patrons and friends.
  She was born in Lanark, Ill., Dec. 31, 1883, the daughter of the late Mr. and 
Mrs. Christian Rowland, and with them located in Sunnyside, Feb. 8, 1908. Soon 
afterward she went to Evanston, Ill., where she became a student at Northwestern 
University and later attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the 
Medical Department of the University of Chicago, from which she was graduated, 
and then took her internship at Memorial Hospital, Worchester, Mass.
  In 1915 Dr. Rowland went to Yakima, Wash., where she practiced her profession 
a year and a half and in 1917 located in Sunnyside, where she practiced until 
she contracted the illness which was fatal to her.
  She was a member of the Yakima County Medical Society, of the Sunnyside 
Chapter of Eastern Star, of the Business Women's Club of Sunnyside, of the 
American Legion Auxiliary, and a member of the Church of the Brethren.  She also 
had been health officer, member of the Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce and was 
active in civic work in various ways.
  Her mother before her marriage was Miss Sarah Lichty, second daughter of the 
late Samuel J. and Catherine (Miller) Lichty of Salisbury, Pa.  Dr. Rowland is 
survived by a sister, Mrs. Grace Speck, and a brother, Earl Rowland, both of 
Sunnyside.  A younger brother, Dr. S. J. Rowland, of Yakima, preceded her in 
death 12 years ago.
  Funeral services were held Friday, Jan. 3rd, at the Haskin Funeral Home in 
Sunnyside conducted by the Rev. Earl Reed.  Interment was in the Sunnyside 
Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, January 23, 1941