OBIT: Dennis J. STEVANUS, 1914, native of Somerset County, PA

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Stevanus, Dennis J.

  The sad news reached N. B. Stevanus last Sunday that a brother, Dennis J. 
Stevanus, died at the Miner's Hospital at Frostburg on Sunday morning.

Meyersdale Commercial, Feb. 19, 1914

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  Dennis J. Stevanus, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah S. Stevanus, was born 
in Elk Lick Township, May 7, 1880, died at Miner's Hospital, in Frostburg, on 
Sunday February 15, 1914, and was therefore aged 33 years, 9 months, and 8 days 
old. He was taken to the hospital not quite a week before to be treated for 
typhoid fever but got worse rapidly until the end came. On account of the snow 
blocked roads, Wm. Winterberg, the Grantsville Undertaker could not bring the 
remains to Grantsville until Tuesday and the funeral which was to be held on 
Tuesday afternoon was postponed until Wednesday afternoon when a large concourse 
of relatives and friends assembled at the Springs Mennonite Church to pay their 
last respects to the departed. Preachers G. D. and Noah Miller preached the 
funeral sermon which was pathetic and yet comforting to the many bereaved. 
Besides the parents afore mentioned, the deceased is survived by his wife, a 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elias S. Miller, and three small children, the youngest 
being about seven months old and the eldest five years old, also by the 
following brothers and sisters: Wilbert B. of Salisbury, Sherman G. of Sugar 
Creek, Ohio, Howard W. of Heston, Kan., Mrs. Lloyd H. Miller of Elk Lick 
Township, and Mrs. Clarence Hetrick of Garrett County, Md. Before his marriage 
Mr. Stevanus learned the tinner and carpenter trade and later embarked in that 
business for himself. After his marriage he purchased a property at Grantsville, 
where he resided with his family when he was stricken with the illness that 
terminated in his death so soon after. He was successful in business, was 
industrious, generous and scrupulously honest and will be much missed not only 
by his family to whom he was a kind and loving husband and father, but by the 
neighborhood and church. He was from boyhood a member of the Mennonite church 
and often sang in choirs of other churches and in other ways helped the cause of 
Christianity.  His remains were laid in there last resting place in the cemetery 
at Springs where, may peace be to his ashes.

Meyersdale Commercial, Feb. 26, 1914