OBIT: Mary (HARDING) WAGNER, 1944, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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MARY WAGNER

  Mary (Harding) Wagner, wife of Mortimer A. Wagner, died at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. Albert J. Bittner, on Sunday, November 12, at about 9:15 a.m., of 
coronary thrombosis.  Mrs. Wagner has suffered heart attacks at irregular 
intervals for some years, sometimes of considerable severity, and on Saturday 
morning, she was again stricken, an attack from which she did not recover.  She 
was able to talk to members of her family on Saturday night, and passed away 
peacefully while asleep on Sunday morning.
  She was born in England on March 27, 1882, daughter of the late James Harding 
and Margaret (Hopper) Harding, and was aged 62 years, 7 months and 15 days.
  She is survived by her husband; her mother; one daughter, Isabelle, wife of 
Albert J. Bittner; one son, Morris H. Wagner; one grandson, Donald Wagner, and 
two brothers, John and William E. Harding, all of Salisbury.
  She was united in marriage to Mortimer A. Wagner on April 30, 1902, in the 
Lutheran Church at Monongahela, Pa., by the pastor, Rev. D. L. Johnson.  At the 
time, she was a teacher in the public schools here, and Mr. Wagner was in 
business on Grant Street.  She was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church, and 
for many years pianist in St. John's Lutheran Church in Salisbury, until her 
hearing began to fail.  She was a lady of the finest type, always in good humor, 
and with a cheerful word to everyone; never willing to see, hear or believe evil 
of anyone.
  Funeral services were conducted in the Thomas Funeral Parlor on Wednesday at 
2:30 p.m. by her pastor, Rev. George E. Bowersox, Jr.  Interment in the I.O.O.F. 
Cemetery, with Mortician Stanley M. Thomas in charge.
  Among those from out of town who attended the funeral were: Mrs. Harry 
Wheeler, Akron, O.; Dennis and Ray Wilt, Akron, O.; Mrs. Edith Wagner, 
Lancaster, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. George Wagner and daughter, Phyllis, Morgantown, 
W.Va.; Mr. and Mrs. William R. Riley and daughter, Maureen, Somerset; Mr. and 
Mrs. Edgar Glotfelty, Berlin; Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bittner, Meyersdale; Mr. and 
Mrs. Joseph Beachy, Grantsville; Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wilkes, Mrs. Norma Jean 
McCann and Mrs. Robert Jack, Monongahela, Pa.; Mrs. George Wahl, Jr., 
Greensburg.

Meyersdale Republican, November 16, 1944