OBIT: Jennie STANTON, 1947, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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JENNIE STANTON

  Miss Jennie Stanton, 81, died suddenly on Thursday night, February 20, at the 
home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Thomas Stanton of Bittinger. Funeral services 
were held Monday afternoon at the Winterburg Funeral Home in Grantsville, Rev. 
D. J. Combs, pastor of the Methodist Church, of which Miss Stanton was a member, 
officiated.  Mrs. George Edwards and Mrs. Harry J. Bender sang.  Interment was 
made in the Bittinger Lutheran Cemetery.  The pallbearers were nephews of the 
decedent, Guy, Hubert, Melvin and Allen Stanton.
  Miss Stanton was the daughter of the late Thomas and Louise (Broadwater) 
Stanton and was born at Bittinger, May 9, 1865.  She was the last member of a 
family of nine children - four brothers and five sisters.  A brother, Thomas, 
passed away in January of this year.
  She attended college in Hagerstown and a Bible school in Ohio.  She was always 
interested in church work.  She made her home in recent years with several 
nieces and nephews.

Meyersdale Republican, February 27, 1947