OBIT: Annie Elizabeth (Holt) STARK, 1931, Confluence, Somerset County, PA

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ANNIE ELIZABETH HOLT STARK

  Annie Elizabeth Holt Stark, wife of Charles H. Stark, died in St. Francis 
Hospital, Pittsburgh, at 9:35 p.m., on Monday, July 27th, after an illness of 
about eight months, the last ten days of which she was confined to her bed.  The 
immediate cause of death was terminal pneumonia.
  Annie Elizabeth Holt was born in Pittsburgh on August 4, 1869, a daughter of 
the late J. W. and Keziah Holt, and lived in Pittsburgh for six years, after 
which the family moved to Ohiopyle.  She was married in 1888 to Charles H. 
Stark, and lived for seven years on a farm near Farmington, coming to Confluence 
in 1895, where they resided since then.
  She was a life long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and its 
auxiliaries. She was also a member of the Women's Benefit Association.  She was 
kind, friendly and charitable, and was beloved by everyone who knew her.  Many 
were the kind acts and deeds she performed in times of adversity.  She was a 
kind and considerate mother and brought up a spendid family.
  She is survived by her husband, Charles H. Stark and the following children:  
Mrs. Grace Corriston, Wilkinsburg; Mrs. Ethel Davis, Confluence; Mrs. Edith 
Hyde, Hastings, and Charles H. Stark, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio, and seven 
grandchildren.  Three brothers, William Holt, R. C. Holt and C. C. Holt, all of 
Ohiopyle; and one sister, Mrs. Ida Collins, also of Ohiopyle, also survive.
  The body was brought to Confluence on Tuesday, July 28th, by Funeral Director 
Charles B. Humbert.  Short services were held by the members of the Women's 
Benefit Association at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, July 30th, and funeral services were 
held at the family home at 2 p.m. the same day, Rev. George O. Ritter, of the 
Confluence Lutheran Church officiating.  There were many beautiful floral 
tributes.  A quartet from the Methodist Episcopal Church choir sang several 
beautiful selections.
  Interment was made in Sampson Chapel cemetery along the National Pike near 
Farmington, in charge of Funeral Director Charles B. Humbert.  The pall-bearers, 
nephews of the deceased, were William Holt, Webster Holt, Denzil Holt, Thomas 
Holt, Robert Holt and Oran Waters.

Meyersdale Republican, August 6, 1931