OBIT: Susan D. (Hutzell) SMITH, 1931, Wittenberg, Somerset County, PA

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SUSAN D. HUTZELL SMITH

  Mrs. Susan D. Hutzell Smith, widow of Fillmore Smith, died at her home at 
Wittenberg, Monday eve, at 10 o'clock July 27, 1931.  She was aged 69 years, 6 
months and 19 days.
  She was the only child of the late Mr. and Mrs. Perry Hutzell.  She had been 
in ill health for ten years with dropsy.  Her entire life was spent in the 
community in which she died.
  Her husband passed away 27 years ago.  Two children also preceded her to the 
grave - one son, William who died six years ago, and one daughter, Mrs. W. A. 
DeLozier, four years ago.
  She is survived by ten children, four sons and six daughters: P. H. Smith, 
Sand Patch; F. F. Smith, Brownsville; Ida (Mrs. J. S.) Wable, Boswell; Agnes, 
Mrs. Bert Wable, Fort Hill; John L. Smith, Listie; Berdella (Mrs. Cyrus) Housel, 
Meyersdale; Martha (Mrs. Elmer) Petenbrink, Salisbury; G. D. Smith, Lydia (Mrs. 
Walter) Christner, and Eliza, Wittenberg.  She had thirty-six grandchildren and 
one great-grandchild.
  Mrs. Smith was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church.  Funeral services 
were conducted by Rev. S. D. Sigler, of Salisbury, in the White Oak Lutheran 
Church, on Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock with interment in the family plot 
in the church cemetery.  Undertaker J. L. Tressler had charge of the burial.
  Mrs. Smith was highly esteemed by all who knew her.  She was a devoted mother 
and kind neighbor and will be sadly missed in her home and community.

Meyersdale Republican, August 6, 1931