OBIT: Annie (HICKSON) TURVEY, 1943, Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, PA

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library.
Transcribed and proofread by: Richard Boyer.

Copyright 2008.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/
________________________________________________

ANNIE TURVEY

  Mrs. Annie Hickson Turvey, aged 61 years, 10 months and 27 days, was born in 
Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, Pa., May 11, 1881.  She was a daughter of 
Richard and Elizabeth Dryden Hickson, and was married to Edward S. Turvey in 
1902.  She was reared in the community where she was born, at Coal Run.  She 
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. K. Goldsby, 234 Hollywood Boulevard, 
Steubenville, Ohio, Apr. 8, 1943.  Her husband preceded her in death in 1933.  
For 33 years she was a resident of Amsterdam, O., and served that town 12 years 
as postmaster.
  Mrs. Turvey is survived by these children: Mrs. A. K. Goldsby, Mrs. R. E. 
Johnson and Beryl E. Turvey of Steubenville, and three grandchildren; also by 
the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. M. D. West and Mrs. J. F. Yingling, 
Amsterdam, O.; Richard Hickson, Monongahela, Pa.; Mrs. James Hotchkiss, 
Canonsburg, Pa.; Mrs. W. E. Turvey, Bergholz, O.
  Mrs. Turvey, while a resident of Amsterdam, was affiliated with the Methodist 
Church, but after locating in Steubenville, with the Grace Lutheran Church, and 
was held in high esteem by a large circle of friends, including many in the 
community where she was born and reared in her native state.
  Her funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Amsterdam, where 
most of her life was spent.
  The writer of this obituary was kindly given the data for it by Mrs. Edith 
Hickson of Salisbury, sister-in-law of the deceased.

Meyersdale Republican, April 22, 1943