Services for Miss Elizabeth Pearl Bowermaster, 47, who died Thursday at her home in Cleversburg, were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Cleversburg church. the Rev. W.K. Hostermar officiated and burial was made in Spring Hill cemetery.
Miss Bowermaster, who had been in ill health from some time, was a daughter of the late John and Katherine Bowermaster and was born in Cleversburg on October 30, 1901.
She was graduated from Carlisle Commercial college in 1919, as a private secretary and was first employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company at its Carlisle freight station. After that she was employed as secretary to Col. Keefer at Carlisle barracks, and later worked for the Beistle company in Shippensburg. Her last position was secretary to the Adams Electric Cooperative, West King street.
She is survived by three brothers and two sisters, Jacob R. and John C. of Canton, Ohio; James R. of Shippensburg R.R. 2; Mrs. Samuel H. McBeth of Hagerstown, Maryland, and Miss Sue Bowermaster, also of Shippensburg R.R. 2; one nephew and several nieces.
News Chronicle, Shippensburg, PA
January 1949
Services for Miss Elizabeth Pearl Bowermaster, 47, who died Thursday at her home in Cleversburg, were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Cleversburg church. the Rev. W.K. Hostermar officiated and burial was made in Spring Hill cemetery.
Miss Bowermaster, who had been in ill health from some time, was a daughter of the late John and Katherine Bowermaster and was born in Cleversburg on October 30, 1901.
She was graduated from Carlisle Commercial college in 1919, as a private secretary and was first employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company at its Carlisle freight station. After that she was employed as secretary to Col. Keefer at Carlisle barracks, and later worked for the Beistle company in Shippensburg. Her last position was secretary to the Adams Electric Cooperative, West King street.
She is survived by three brothers and two sisters, Jacob R. and John C. of Canton, Ohio; James R. of Shippensburg R.R. 2; Mrs. Samuel H. McBeth of Hagerstown, Maryland, and Miss Sue Bowermaster, also of Shippensburg R.R. 2; one nephew and several nieces.
News Chronicle, Shippensburg, PA
January 1949
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