OBIT: Elizabeth Ann (Brown) SANNER, 1932, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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ELIZABETH ANN SANNER

  Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Brown Sanner died at the home of her son-in-law and 
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram C. Humbert, East Washington Avenue, Connellsville, 
at 12:30 p.m., Saturday, January 23rd, after an illness of about six months, 
suffering from a complication of diseases.
  Mrs. Sanner was born in Dawson, Pa., on March 18, 1853, a daughter of the late 
Rev. J. R. and Dorcas Brown; pioneer residents of Lower Turkeyfoot Township.  
Her father, Rev. J. R. Brown, was one of the first Baptist ministers with a 
charge west of the Allegheny Mountains, was founder of the Jersey Baptist 
Church, and was in the ministry of the Baptist Church for over a period of fifty 
years.
  Mrs. Sanner was married to Cyrus M. Sanner 58 years ago.  To this union were 
born two sons and five daughters.  One son, Ira, preceded her to the grave some 
years ago.  The following children survive:  Mrs. H. C. Humbert, Mrs. J. P. 
Crouse and Mrs. Marion Snyder, Connellsville; Mrs. Blanche Fitzpatrick, 
Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. C. E. Critchfield, Confluence, and Herbert B. Sanner, 
Toledo, Ohio.  Her husband, Cyrus M. Sanner, also survives, as well as the 
following brothers and sisters:  A. C. Brown, Dawson; Thomas R. Brown, Edward H. 
Brown, James R. Brown, D. Herbert Brown, and Mrs. Charles W. Kurtz, all of 
Confluence.  One brother, William Brown, preceded her to the grave 35 years ago.
  Mrs. Sanner was practically all of her life a member of the Baptist Church and 
affiliated organizations.  She was a sincere Christian and a consistent worker 
in the church of her choice.  Her place will be hard to fill in the church.  She 
was a kind and considerate mother, a loving wife and a kind and friendly 
neighbor, and will be greatly missed by every one who has come into contact with 
her.
  Mrs. Sanner was a resident of Confluence and vicinity until last September 
when she went to Connellsville where she was taken seriously ill.   Since that 
time she lived with her children in Connellsville.
  The body was brought from Connellsville on Sunday afternoon, and taken to the 
home of her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Critchfield, on Oden Street.  Funeral services 
were held in the Confluence Baptist Church at 10:30 a.m., Monday, January 25th, 
with Rev. Daniel E. Hartman of the Linesville (Pa.) Baptist Church, a former 
pastor of the local Baptist Church, officiating, assisted by Rev. Dr. E. H. 
Stevens of the First Baptist Church of Connellsville.  The pallbearers were five 
nephews, C. W. Kurtz, Jr., Robert Brown, Lynn Howard, George Brown and Harry 
Brown, and one grandson, Eugene Humbert.  Interment in Baptist Cemetery, West 
Confluence.

Meyersdale Republican, January 28, 1932