OBIT: Susanna (HOUSEL) STEINLEY, 1942, native of Somerset County, PA

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SUSANNAH STEINLY

  Susannah Steinly [sic], aged 81 years, 11 months and 15 days, died August 16, 
1942 at the home of her son in Clarksburg, W.Va., where she had been visiting 
for a week.  Her body was removed to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sarah 
Murphy, Meyersdale.  Mrs. Steinley was born August 31, 1860, at Pocahontas, 
Greenville Township, the daughter of Solomon and Sarah (Beal) Housel.  She was 
married in 1880 to Lewis Steinley.  Fourteen children were born of this union.  
She was preceded in death by her husband, one daughter and one son.  The 
surviving children are Charles H., Millard E., Franklin L. Steinley and Mrs. 
Sarah Murphy, Meyersdale; Mrs. Thomas McKenzie, Frostburg, Md.; Mrs. Harold 
Folk, Friedens, Pa.; Mrs. John Smith, Jerome, Pa.; Mrs. Frank Wilhelm, Robert 
Steinley, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. Mahlon ??, Louisville, Ohio; Howard A., Clarksburg, 
W.Va.; Mrs. John Dietle, Salisbury.  She is also survived by three sisters and 
one brother, Mrs. Maggie Cook, Meyersdale; Mrs. W. M. Boyer, Youngstown, Ohio; 
Mrs. Barbara E. Cober, Daleville, Va.; and Harvey Housel, Meyersdale, Pa.  
Seventy-seven grandchildren and forty-two great-grandchildren also survive.
  Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 in the Greenville 
Lutheran Church of which Mrs. Steinley was an active member.  Services were 
conducted by Rev. S. Seigler with burial in the church cemetery under the 
direction of Stanley M. Thomas.

Meyersdale Republican, August 27, 1942