OBIT: Mary SHRANKO, 1914, Ralphton, Somerset County, PA

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Shranko, Mary

YOUNG GIRL KILLED BY FALL, Mary Shranko, a sixteen year old girl employed at the 
Ralphton Hotel, was discovered dead on Tuesday morning last with a broken neck, 
she having fallen from a ten-foot porch. No one saw the accident. The body was 
found by a foreigner who was on his way to the office of Dr. Shaffer, in 
Ralphton. A dishpan was found by the girl's body. At first it was believed that 
perhaps she slipped on the heavy frost and went over the edge of the porch, but 
Proprietor Brennen, is of the opinion that she had leaned on a clothe wire, as 
she frequently had done and that it broke. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Andy 
Shranko, of Ralphton.

Meyersdale Commercial, Dec. 3, 1914