OBIT: Cora Elizabeth (Stephens) STOKES, 1936, Interment in Sunnyburn, York County, PA

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Mrs. C. R. Stokes buried from home near Sunnyburn

Sunnyburn. July 10, 1936 - The funeral of Mrs. Cora Elizabeth Stephens Stokes, 
wife of Charles R. Stokes, Delta R. D. 2, near here, who died on Monday evening 
at the Lancaster General Hospital, was held at 1 o'clock this afternoon. A brief 
service was held at the Stokes home, after which the cortege proceeded to Salem 
M. E. church, Lower Chanceford township, where concluding services were 
conducted. Rev. W. M. Weaver, pastor of Pine Grove Presbyterian church, this 
place, and Rev. J. M. Pheasant, pastor of the Airville Methodist Episcopal 
charge, were the officiating clergymen. The pallbearers were: William Beckstead, 
Scott Pomraning, Harold Leiphart, William Scott, Samuel Haugh and Perdy Glenn. 
The flower carriers were: Dorothy Hoffmaster, Sara Manifold, Hester Haugh, Jean 
Haugh, Marion Beckstead, Lydia Flaharty, Euretta Flanaghan, Burnice Stephens, 
Ralph Flaharty and Kenneth Stephens. There was a large attendance of relatives 
and friends. Burial was in the cemetery adjoining the church.

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