OBIT: Eliza (FRITZ) SCHROCK, 1943, native of Somerset County, PA

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ELIZA SCHROCK

  Mrs. Eliza Schrock, 77, widow of George Schrock, died at Shanksville last 
Sunday morning after an illness of several months.  She was born in Stonycreek 
Township May 5, 1866, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fritz.
  She is survived by the following children: Mrs. Estella Bowman, St. Paul, 
Indiana; Mrs. Jennie Lehman and Harper Schrock, both of Rockingham; Mrs. Hulda 
Stewart, Derry; Mrs. Cora Stull, Windber, R.D. 1; George, at home; William at 
Denton, Md.; Corporal Milton Schrock, Chaffee, Arkansas.  One daughter is dead.  
There are 19 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
  Corp. Schrock had just been home on leave and returned to Arkansas when his 
mother died.  A grandson, Corp. Clarence Stewart is a gunner on a Flying 
Fortress and now is in a base hospital suffering wounds in active service in New 
Guinea.  He also was wounded previously in a battle at Hawaii.
  The funeral was held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Schrock home, with Rev. W. 
R. Fisher, pastor, United Brethren Church, officiating.  Burial in the Walker 
Cemetery at Shanksville under the direction of J. H. Deaner, mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, April 22, 1943