OBIT: Lydia (STEVANUS) KEIM SCHROCK, 1949, native of Somerset County, PA

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LYDIA K. SCHROCK

  Mrs. Lydia (Stevanus) Keim Schrock, 79, of Farmington, Del., died May 19, 
1949, at the home of her step-son, Eli Schrock.  She had been in bed for several 
weeks.  She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Yoder) Stevanus, and was 
born in Somerset County, June 26, 1896, the last of a family of 24 children.  
She was a half-sister of Mrs. Tillie Summy who passed away a few years ago at 
the age of 100 years.  She was married twice; first to Nathan W. Keim, who died 
March 5, 1923, and later to Christian Schrock, who died March 24, 1949.
  She lived with her first husband in the vicinity of Springs, Pa., until 1910 
when they moved with their family to Fentress, Va.  They were the parents of 
eight children.  Two sons, Lawrence and William, preceded her in death.  She is 
survived by five daughters - Mrs. Mary A. Lepley, Meyersdale; Mrs. Mabel 
Tennefoss, Fentress, Va.; Mrs. Ida Cain, Norfolk, Va.; Mrs. Amanda Gilbert, 
Portsmouth, Va., and Mrs. Stella Hoyle, Cumberland, Md.; by 34 grandchildren, 
and by two step-daughters and four step-sons, 31 step-grandchildren and one 
great grandchild, and a host of nephews and nieces and other relatives.
  Funeral services were conducted in the Greenwood, Del., Amish Church, where 
she was a member, on Saturday morning, May 21, after which the body was taken to 
Fentress, Va., to the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
Tennefoss.  On Saturday afternoon funeral services were held in the Mt. Pleasant 
Mennonite Church with burial in the cemetery adjoining.  Funeral services were 
under the direction of Mrs. K. W. Boyer of Herrington, Del.

Meyersdale Republican, June 2, 1949