OBIT: Mary Josephine EHRHART, 1942, Hanover, York County, PA

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Mrs. Mary Josephine Ehrhart, octogenarian, widow of Daniel D. Ehrhart, died 
Saturday evening at 10:30 o'clock at her home, 108 Carlisle street.  Death 
followed an illness of three years.  She was aged 88 years.

Mrs. Ehrhart was a daughter of the late John M. and Elizabeth Metzger Wolfe, and 
was born October 6, 1853, in Abbottstown, where she resided until sixteen years 
of age when the family moved to Hanover.  Mrs. Ehrhart was engaged in teaching 
school for about thirty five years, thirty years of which she was an instructor 
in the local schools, and is well remembered by many of the middle-aged 
residents of this place who received instructions under "Miss Jo" as she was 
affectionately known by her pupils.

She began her teaching profession in the school at Abbottstown where she 
assisted her father who was the instructor there.  She later taught school at 
Nashville and subsequently in the schools of Hanover until her retirement from 
the teaching profession.

Mrs. Ehrhart would often recall now at an early age she had assisted her mother 
in feeding Union soldiers as they passed through Abbottstown to and from 
Gettysburg.  She also could recall other interesting events of the Civil War 
days.  Following her retirement from teaching school she was married to Daniel 
D. Ehrhart, who preceded her in death in 1930.

Surviving are a step-son, Robert L. Ehrhart, Carlisle street; three sisters and 
one brothers, Mrs. Samuel L. Bixler, West Walnut street; Miss Emily K. Wolfe, 
108 Carlisle street; Ernest Wolfe, Princess street, Hanover and Mrs. Charles B. 
Winters, Denver, Colo., and a number of nieces and nephews.  The funeral will be 
held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Frederick Bucher funeral home, 
Frederick street.  The Rev. Dr. Harry Hursh Beidleman, pastor of St. Matthew's 
Lutheran church will officiate.  Interment will be made in Mt. Olivet cemetery.  
Friends may call at the Bucher funeral home this evening from 7 to 9 o'clock.

The Evening Sun, Hanover, PA  - Monday, April 27, 1942