Born Jeanette Reppert in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Charles Thomas Reppert and Mary A. Bechtel. On Sept 10 1910, Charles was killed in a train accident in the Reading Railroad yard. Mary remarried Warren McWilliams, who adopted Jeanette and some of her sisters thus changing her surname to McWilliams. On Sep 16 1911, Jeanette's stepfather shot and killed a police officer in their family home in Reading, Berks, PA and also shot her sister Ruth in the leg. Warren had a drink problem according to the news reports.
This may have been some of the reasoning she became a Lutheran Deaconess.
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Her Obituary read as follows:
Sister Jeannette M. McWilliams, 78, a Lutheran deaconess who worked in the community for 45 years, died Monday at the Lutheran Deaconess Community Center in Gladwyne.
Her duties took her to Lankenau Hospital as head nurse from 1936 to 1948; to the Rivercrest Home as counselor and nurse from 1948 to 1957; and to the Mary J. Drexel Nursing Home in Bala Cynwyd, where she was on the staff until her retirement in 1975.
Survivors: a sister, Clara Chernoff.
Services: 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Lutheran Deaconess Community Center Chapel, 801 Merion Square Rd., Gladwyne.
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - December 5, 1984
This may have been some of the reasoning she became a Lutheran Deaconess.
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Her Obituary read as follows:
Sister Jeannette M. McWilliams, 78, a Lutheran deaconess who worked in the community for 45 years, died Monday at the Lutheran Deaconess Community Center in Gladwyne.
Her duties took her to Lankenau Hospital as head nurse from 1936 to 1948; to the Rivercrest Home as counselor and nurse from 1948 to 1957; and to the Mary J. Drexel Nursing Home in Bala Cynwyd, where she was on the staff until her retirement in 1975.
Survivors: a sister, Clara Chernoff.
Services: 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Lutheran Deaconess Community Center Chapel, 801 Merion Square Rd., Gladwyne.
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - December 5, 1984
Born Jeanette Reppert in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Charles Thomas Reppert and Mary A. Bechtel. On Sept 10 1910, Charles was killed in a train accident in the Reading Railroad yard. Mary remarried Warren McWilliams, who adopted Jeanette and some of her sisters thus changing her surname to McWilliams. On Sep 16 1911, Jeanette's stepfather shot and killed a police officer in their family home in Reading, Berks, PA and also shot her sister Ruth in the leg. Warren had a drink problem according to the news reports.
This may have been some of the reasoning she became a Lutheran Deaconess.
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Her Obituary read as follows:
Sister Jeannette M. McWilliams, 78, a Lutheran deaconess who worked in the community for 45 years, died Monday at the Lutheran Deaconess Community Center in Gladwyne.
Her duties took her to Lankenau Hospital as head nurse from 1936 to 1948; to the Rivercrest Home as counselor and nurse from 1948 to 1957; and to the Mary J. Drexel Nursing Home in Bala Cynwyd, where she was on the staff until her retirement in 1975.
Survivors: a sister, Clara Chernoff.
Services: 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Lutheran Deaconess Community Center Chapel, 801 Merion Square Rd., Gladwyne.
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - December 5, 1984
This may have been some of the reasoning she became a Lutheran Deaconess.
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Her Obituary read as follows:
Sister Jeannette M. McWilliams, 78, a Lutheran deaconess who worked in the community for 45 years, died Monday at the Lutheran Deaconess Community Center in Gladwyne.
Her duties took her to Lankenau Hospital as head nurse from 1936 to 1948; to the Rivercrest Home as counselor and nurse from 1948 to 1957; and to the Mary J. Drexel Nursing Home in Bala Cynwyd, where she was on the staff until her retirement in 1975.
Survivors: a sister, Clara Chernoff.
Services: 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Lutheran Deaconess Community Center Chapel, 801 Merion Square Rd., Gladwyne.
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - December 5, 1984
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