Daily Republican
January 13, 1956
Mrs. S. Handwork
Mrs. Sarah Cook Handwork, 67, Boyertown RD 2, died suddenly in Pottstown Hospital yesterday morning.
Daughter of the late Levi and Mary E. Thompson Cook, she was a native of *Font, Chester County.
She was a member of Bethel Methodist Church, Spring City RD 1, and the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Church.
In addition to her husband, Charles, she is survived by two sons, Cassell [Charles "Cass"], Norristown RD 1, and Clyde, Spring City RD 1; a sister, Mabel, wife of Harry Powell, with whom she and her husband had been living at the late address, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 in the White Memorial Home, Parkerford, with burial in Bethel cemetery.
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*"FONT - The village of Font, which comprises no more than a dozen houses six miles north of Downingtown, grew around the agricultural enterprises of John R. Hoffman. Font, so named from an ever-flowing spring on the south side of Black Horse Hill, was officially recognized on Feb. 27, 1882, when it became a post office for farmers. Hoffman, who was a school director of Upper Uwchlan Township, was the principal instigator of the post office, though Joe Finch, a colored shoemaker, was the postmaster during the first two weeks of its existence. The name Creamery was first written on the application for a post office, but it was crossed out and the name Font written above it."
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6 Aug 2015 ~ Thanks, Dad Oh, Melissa and Mike O!
January 13, 1956
Mrs. S. Handwork
Mrs. Sarah Cook Handwork, 67, Boyertown RD 2, died suddenly in Pottstown Hospital yesterday morning.
Daughter of the late Levi and Mary E. Thompson Cook, she was a native of *Font, Chester County.
She was a member of Bethel Methodist Church, Spring City RD 1, and the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Church.
In addition to her husband, Charles, she is survived by two sons, Cassell [Charles "Cass"], Norristown RD 1, and Clyde, Spring City RD 1; a sister, Mabel, wife of Harry Powell, with whom she and her husband had been living at the late address, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 in the White Memorial Home, Parkerford, with burial in Bethel cemetery.
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*"FONT - The village of Font, which comprises no more than a dozen houses six miles north of Downingtown, grew around the agricultural enterprises of John R. Hoffman. Font, so named from an ever-flowing spring on the south side of Black Horse Hill, was officially recognized on Feb. 27, 1882, when it became a post office for farmers. Hoffman, who was a school director of Upper Uwchlan Township, was the principal instigator of the post office, though Joe Finch, a colored shoemaker, was the postmaster during the first two weeks of its existence. The name Creamery was first written on the application for a post office, but it was crossed out and the name Font written above it."
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6 Aug 2015 ~ Thanks, Dad Oh, Melissa and Mike O!
Daily Republican
January 13, 1956
Mrs. S. Handwork
Mrs. Sarah Cook Handwork, 67, Boyertown RD 2, died suddenly in Pottstown Hospital yesterday morning.
Daughter of the late Levi and Mary E. Thompson Cook, she was a native of *Font, Chester County.
She was a member of Bethel Methodist Church, Spring City RD 1, and the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Church.
In addition to her husband, Charles, she is survived by two sons, Cassell [Charles "Cass"], Norristown RD 1, and Clyde, Spring City RD 1; a sister, Mabel, wife of Harry Powell, with whom she and her husband had been living at the late address, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 in the White Memorial Home, Parkerford, with burial in Bethel cemetery.
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*"FONT - The village of Font, which comprises no more than a dozen houses six miles north of Downingtown, grew around the agricultural enterprises of John R. Hoffman. Font, so named from an ever-flowing spring on the south side of Black Horse Hill, was officially recognized on Feb. 27, 1882, when it became a post office for farmers. Hoffman, who was a school director of Upper Uwchlan Township, was the principal instigator of the post office, though Joe Finch, a colored shoemaker, was the postmaster during the first two weeks of its existence. The name Creamery was first written on the application for a post office, but it was crossed out and the name Font written above it."
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6 Aug 2015 ~ Thanks, Dad Oh, Melissa and Mike O!
January 13, 1956
Mrs. S. Handwork
Mrs. Sarah Cook Handwork, 67, Boyertown RD 2, died suddenly in Pottstown Hospital yesterday morning.
Daughter of the late Levi and Mary E. Thompson Cook, she was a native of *Font, Chester County.
She was a member of Bethel Methodist Church, Spring City RD 1, and the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Church.
In addition to her husband, Charles, she is survived by two sons, Cassell [Charles "Cass"], Norristown RD 1, and Clyde, Spring City RD 1; a sister, Mabel, wife of Harry Powell, with whom she and her husband had been living at the late address, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 in the White Memorial Home, Parkerford, with burial in Bethel cemetery.
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*"FONT - The village of Font, which comprises no more than a dozen houses six miles north of Downingtown, grew around the agricultural enterprises of John R. Hoffman. Font, so named from an ever-flowing spring on the south side of Black Horse Hill, was officially recognized on Feb. 27, 1882, when it became a post office for farmers. Hoffman, who was a school director of Upper Uwchlan Township, was the principal instigator of the post office, though Joe Finch, a colored shoemaker, was the postmaster during the first two weeks of its existence. The name Creamery was first written on the application for a post office, but it was crossed out and the name Font written above it."
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6 Aug 2015 ~ Thanks, Dad Oh, Melissa and Mike O!
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HANDWORK ~ SARAH E. ~ 1888---1956
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