OBIT: Florence (Livengood) WAGNER, 1941, native of Somerset County, PA

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FLORENCE L. WAGNER

  Mrs. Florence (Livengood) Wagner, second wife of J. Newton Wagner, died at her 
home in Akron, Ohio, Saturday, Dec. 21, 1940, at 9:45 p.m., at the age of 49 
years and 23 days.  Her death was caused by cirrhosis of the liver and dropsy, 
after being bedfast most of the time for about 7 months.
  She was the second of ten children born to Peter L. Livengood and his first 
wife, the late Minnie V. (Green) Livengood, and was born and reared in 
Salisbury, Pa., where at her childhood home she was united in marriage with Mr. 
Wagner, June 5, 1936, by Rev. S. D. Sigler.  She is survived by her devoted 
husband, also by her father, and these sisters and brothers: Ada Irene, wife of 
C. A. Tallinger of Cleveland, Ohio; William S., of Somerset, Pa.; Theodore F., 
of Sipesville, Pa., Peter L., Jr., of Trenton, N.J., John A. of Harrisburg, Pa., 
and Joseph F., at home.  She was preceded in death by her mother, her elder 
sister, Alma Grace, wife of the late J. B. Algire of Johnstown, and Robert, who 
died in infancy.
  A funeral service was held at the Wagner home, 653 Archwood Avenue, Akron, at 
3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 24th, and was conducted by Revs. J. B. Matson and D. B. 
Hampe.  The same day the mortal remains of Mrs. Wagner were shipped to 
Meyersdale, Pa., and arrived there at an early hour, Christmas morning.
  Stanley M. Thomas, Salisbury mortician, transported them from Meyersdale to 
his funeral parlor in Salisbury, and from thence to the childhood home of Mrs. 
Wagner, some hours later, where they reposed in state from 10:00 a.m. until 2:30 
p.m., Thursday when a second funeral service was held.  The service was 
conducted by Rev. J. B. Matson, pastor of the Akron Gospel Chapel, a branch of 
the Evangelical Society of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Bible Institute, in which 
organization she had many highly esteemed friends, some of whom frequently 
ministered to her during her long illness, including the Rev. Mr. Matson.
  While Mrs. Wagner's remains reposed in state, both in Akron and in Salisbury, 
a large number of her friends in both places, and from various other places, 
called to pay their respects and to extend their sympathy to the bereaved.  
Beautiful floral tributes were also brought or sent from various places, and 
both services were well attended.
  At an early age, Mrs. Wagner united with the Brethren Church in Salisbury, 
where she was a regular attendant at all services, whenever possible, but the 
membership finally became so reduced by removals and deaths of members, that the 
Salisbury congregation ceased to function.  Most of its local members soon 
united with other churches, and when still at home with her parents and long 
before her marriage Mrs. Wagner became a member of St. John's Lutheran Church of 
Salisbury, and was also a member of the Missionary Society of that church, 
taking an active interest in both as long as she remained in Salisbury.  In 
Akron she worshipped most of the time at a Wesleyan Methodist church near her 
home and contributed to its support.  Rev. D. B. Hampe, pastor, and other 
members of that church, also neighbors, frequently visited her and ministered to 
her in many ways during her last illness.
  Her home church activities, and such help as she could give to others when 
help and practical sympathy were needed, meant more to Mrs. Wagner than all else 
in the world.  A more unselfish person than she, under any and all 
circumstances, would be hard to find.
  Miss Mildred Bowman of Somerset, a distant relative of the P. L. Livengood 
family, sang two of Mrs. Wagner's favorite hymns at the Salisbury funeral 
service, namely: "The Old Rugged Cross," and "Abide With Me."  At the conclusion 
of the service under the direction of Mortician Stanley M. Thomas, interment and 
the final rites took place in the Salisbury I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, January 2, 1941