OBIT: Elsie O. (Coxen) Waser, 1931, York County, PA

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Mrs. Ervin Waser, Of Stony Brook, Was Preparing To Do Baking

HAD HEART ATTACK

Stony Brook, July 24 - Mrs. Elsie O. Waser, wife of Ervin Waser, while planning 
to do the family baking for the week-end, was stricken with a sudden heart 
attack and dropped over dead in the kitchen of her home at York R. D. 7, this 
place, at 8:30 o’clock this morning.  Dr. Maurice Spector, of Wrightsville, was 
summoned.  He pronounced the woman dead upon his arrival and notified Coroner L. 
U. Zech, who issued the death certificate giving as the cause of death, a heart 
ailment.

Mrs. Waser, aged 43 years, 11 months and 24 days, is survived by her husband, 
and four children, Mrs. Ernest Ohler, Wrightsville, R. D. 2, and Minnie, Mabel 
and Betty Waser, at home.  Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Coxen, Dover R. D. 5, 
and the following brothers and sisters also survive:  John, Elmer, Jacob and 
James Jr., Coxen, all of York; Mrs. William Rexroth, Freysville; Erma 
Brownsberger, Lancaster county, and Mrs. Gorman Fulchomer, York.

Funeral services will be held on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, (D.S.T.) from 
her late home at this place.  Further services will be held in the Hallam 
Lutheran church, with the pastor, Rev. Clarence Hershey, officiating.  Interment 
will be made in the Upper Mennonite cemetery, this place.  Furnace B. Olewiler, 
funeral director of Red Lion and Hallam, is in charge of arrangement.

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WASER – On July 24, 1931, suddenly, at her home in Stony Brook, York R. D. 7, 
Elsie O. Waser, wife of Ervin Waser, aged 43 years, 11 months and 24 days.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral on Sunday, July 26, at 2 
o’clock (D.S.T.)  Short services at her late home at Stony Brook R. D. 7.  
Further services will be held in the Lutheran church at Hallam.  Interment in 
the Upper Mennonite cemetery, Stony Brook.

Lancaster and Hanover papers please copy.

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FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. WASER AT STONY BROOK

Stony Brook, July 26 – Funeral services were conducted today for Mrs. Elsie O. 
Waser, wife of Ervin Waser, who died suddenly Friday morning while planning to 
do the family baking for the week-end.  The services, which were largely 
attended, were held from her late home at 2 o’clock, this afternoon, with 
further services in the Hallam Lutheran church, with the pastor, Rev. Clarence 
H. Hershey, officiating.  The pallbearers, relatives, were:  John, James, Elmer 
and Jacob Coxen, brother, and Elmer Fulchomer, and William Rexroth, brother-in-
law.  Interment was made in the upper Mennonite cemetery, at this place.

Due to the dense traffic on the Lincoln highway this afternoon, and the grave 
danger which would have been incurred, had the funeral cortege entered the 
Lincoln highway at the Stony Brook bridge without supervision of traffic, 
Corporal John D. Kime, of the state highway patrol, and Officer Lester 
Carpenter, of Hallam, directed traffic and acted as a motorcycle escort to the 
procession.

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