OBIT: Elizabeth (BRANDLER) SHUMAKER, 1948, Jerome, Somerset County, PA

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ELIZABETH BRANDLER SHUMAKER

  Mrs. Elizabeth (Brandler) Shumaker, 82, Jerome, died at her home at 5:40 p.m. 
on Saturday, October 30.  She was born on October 9, 1866 in North Bloomfield, 
Calif., a daughter of Henry and Jesse (Carter) Brandler.  She is the widow of 
Alonzo H. Shumaker who died January 27, 1918.
  She was a member of Eastern Star Lodge, Naomi Chapter 12, Grafton, W.Va., for 
40 years.  She was a charter member and also the oldest member of the Jerome 
Evangelical Lutheran Church.
  She is survived by five daughters, Mrs. J. Charlton Truex, Johnstown; Mrs. 
Vernon R. Van DiVender, Colver; and Myrtle B., Rhea L. and Aleda U. Shumaker, 
all at home.  Robert Brandler, West Salisbury, also survives and a second 
brother Nicholas Brandler is deceased.
  Chapter 143, Eastern Star conducted services at the residence at 8 p.m. on 
Monday and church services were conducted in the Jerome Lutheran Church at 2 
p.m. on Tuesday, November 2 with her pastor, the Rev. George A. Clark, 
officiating.  Interment in the IOOF Cemetery, Salisbury, in charge of Mortician 
Lloyd G. Shank, Windber.

Meyersdale Republican, November 4, 1948