OBIT: Nora (HOUSEL) SHUMAKER, 1944, native of Somerset County, PA

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NORA SHUMAKER

  Mrs. Nora (Housel) Shumaker, 56, wife of A. W. Shumaker, died last Thursday 
afternoon at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Oran Jacobs 
of Jenners No. 2.  She had been bedfast since February and had been in ill 
health for three years.
  A daughter of Richard and Mary (Nedrow) Housel, she was born on Aug. 1, 1887, 
near Salisbury.  In addition to her husband she leaves four children - Lee, 
Chester, Pa.; Mrs. Ruth Jacobs, mentioned; Cecil, Jenners No. 2, and Alvin, 
Champion, Pa.  Also surviving are 16 grandchildren and the following brothers 
and sisters: Mrs. Lydia Sipple, Salisbury; Mrs. Ida Hoover, Somerset; Mrs. Irvin 
Brown, Boswell; Mrs. Eva Brown, Somerset; Mrs. Edith Akers, Frostburg, Md.; 
Curtis Housel, Boswell; Oscar, Hyasota; Ray, Somerset; Roy, Frostburg, Md.; 
Clarence, Mt. Savage, Md.; Mrs. Viola Durr, Frostburg, and John Housel, 
Salisbury.
  A brief prayer service was conducted at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the 
Jacobs home, followed by rites at 2:30 o'clock at the Salisbury Church of the 
Brethren by Rev. J. M. Geary, pastor of the Maple Spring Church of the Brethren.  
Interment was made in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Salisbury, under the direction of 
Jay O. Hay, Boswell mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, April 20, 1944