OBIT: Marian Louise SHOEMAKER, 1946, native of Somerset County, PA

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MARIAN LOUISE SHOEMAKER

  Marian Louise Shoemaker, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Shoemaker, and 
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shoemaker, North Street, died Sunday 
morning, December 29, at the family home, Pittsburgh, from glandular and heart 
conditions.
  Marian was born at the home of her grandparents in Meyersdale, July 8, 1932.  
She, with her parents, continued to reside in Meyersdale until several years 
ago, when they removed to Pittsburgh, where her father has since been employed 
in the Crucible Steel works.  Marian attended the first and second grades in the 
Meyersdale schools, and upon location in Pittsburgh, she entered the Belmar 
grade schools.  At the time of her death she was a senior in the Baxter junior 
high school, from which she was to have graduated with honors at the 
commencement exercises January 29, and would have entered the sophomore class of 
the Pittsburgh Westinghouse high school.
  During the past several years Marian was also enrolled in the School of Art in 
Pittsburgh, many of her drawings received honorable mention.  She was a member 
of the junior choir of Homewood Methodist Church, frequently appearing in 
special programs of the church and Sunday school.  She was accorded a high 
tribute by Dr. Steele, supervising principal of Baxter junior high and by her 
pastor, Rev. E. Wilson Kelly, D.D., pastor of Homewood M.E. Church, for her 
precociousness and general usefulness in both her church and school work.
  Marian's grandfather of Meyersdale and her aunt, Mrs. Martha W. May, of 
Johnstown spent several days at the George Shoemaker home during the Christmas 
season, and upon the departure of the former for his home in Meyersdale, 
Thursday following Christmas, Marian accompanied him to the bus station in East 
Liberty, and appeared in the best of spirits.  The following day, Fri., she was 
stricken and all that medical science could do was unavailing, and she passed 
peacefully away on Sunday morning, about 7:30.
  Her grandmother, an invalid for years, almost succumbed to the shock. 
Notwithstanding her condition, Grandmother Shoemaker decided she would accompany 
her son, who had come up from Pittsburgh to take his parents with him.  The 
weather, however, turned bad before they started and only Mr. Shoemaker went 
with his son.
  Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Fetzer Funeral Home, North 
Homewood Street, Pittsburgh, where hundreds of Marian's friends went to pay 
their last respects.  Rev. Dr. E. Wilson Kelly officiated.  Interment was made 
in the Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh.
  Besides her parents and paternal grandparents, Marian is survived by twin 
sisters, Norma Mae and Nancy Ann and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William 
Frank, of Indiana, Pa.
  Out-of-town relatives who attended the obsequies were W. A. Shoemaker, 
Meyersdale, grandfather of the deceased; Mrs. Lydia Schramm, Salisbury, and Mrs. 
Martha W. May, Johnstown, aunts of the deceased, and Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Glover, 
Somerset, uncle and aunt.

Meyersdale Republican, January 9, 1947