Mrs. Julia Coulter Eakin
Mrs. Julia Coulter Eakin, 82, resident of Grove City for 44 years, died at 11:00 Monday morning, April 11, 1949, at the Davis Invalid Home in Sharon. She had been a patient at the home since Jan. 4, 1943, when she was injured in a fall from a stepladder.
Mrs. Eakin was a widow of C.A. Eakin, who died last Jan. 22.
Deeply interested in church and missionary work, she left a sizable annuity with the foreign missions board of the United Presbyterian Church.
Born at Wesley on May 5, 1866, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Coulter, she united with the Amity United Presbyterian Church at an early age and was a leader of young people's work, a Sunday School teacher, organist and choir director there for many years. She was a teacher in Venango County Schools until her marriage April 13, 1893.
In 1897 Mr. and Mrs. Eakin moved to Eau Claire, Butler County, where they were engaged in mercantile business for several years. Mrs. Eakin became a charter member of the newly-organized United Presbyterian Church there and was active in Sunday School, choir and music work. Going to Grove City in 1904, she became an active member of the United Presbyterian Church and of the Dorcas Bible Class and the Alice Dodds Missionary Society.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Homer Pettit, of Akron, and 49 nieces and nephews.
She was removed to the Shelley Funeral Home at Grove City where friends may call this afternoon and tonight. Services will be conducted at the funeral home at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon by Dr. B. H. Henderson, with burial following in Amity Cemetery.
*Published in The Record-Argus (Greenville Pennsylvania) April 12 1949.
Mrs. Julia Coulter Eakin, 82, resident of Grove City for 44 years, died at 11:00 Monday morning, April 11, 1949, at the Davis Invalid Home in Sharon. She had been a patient at the home since Jan. 4, 1943, when she was injured in a fall from a stepladder.
Mrs. Eakin was a widow of C.A. Eakin, who died last Jan. 22.
Deeply interested in church and missionary work, she left a sizable annuity with the foreign missions board of the United Presbyterian Church.
Born at Wesley on May 5, 1866, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Coulter, she united with the Amity United Presbyterian Church at an early age and was a leader of young people's work, a Sunday School teacher, organist and choir director there for many years. She was a teacher in Venango County Schools until her marriage April 13, 1893.
In 1897 Mr. and Mrs. Eakin moved to Eau Claire, Butler County, where they were engaged in mercantile business for several years. Mrs. Eakin became a charter member of the newly-organized United Presbyterian Church there and was active in Sunday School, choir and music work. Going to Grove City in 1904, she became an active member of the United Presbyterian Church and of the Dorcas Bible Class and the Alice Dodds Missionary Society.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Homer Pettit, of Akron, and 49 nieces and nephews.
She was removed to the Shelley Funeral Home at Grove City where friends may call this afternoon and tonight. Services will be conducted at the funeral home at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon by Dr. B. H. Henderson, with burial following in Amity Cemetery.
*Published in The Record-Argus (Greenville Pennsylvania) April 12 1949.
Mrs. Julia Coulter Eakin
Mrs. Julia Coulter Eakin, 82, resident of Grove City for 44 years, died at 11:00 Monday morning, April 11, 1949, at the Davis Invalid Home in Sharon. She had been a patient at the home since Jan. 4, 1943, when she was injured in a fall from a stepladder.
Mrs. Eakin was a widow of C.A. Eakin, who died last Jan. 22.
Deeply interested in church and missionary work, she left a sizable annuity with the foreign missions board of the United Presbyterian Church.
Born at Wesley on May 5, 1866, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Coulter, she united with the Amity United Presbyterian Church at an early age and was a leader of young people's work, a Sunday School teacher, organist and choir director there for many years. She was a teacher in Venango County Schools until her marriage April 13, 1893.
In 1897 Mr. and Mrs. Eakin moved to Eau Claire, Butler County, where they were engaged in mercantile business for several years. Mrs. Eakin became a charter member of the newly-organized United Presbyterian Church there and was active in Sunday School, choir and music work. Going to Grove City in 1904, she became an active member of the United Presbyterian Church and of the Dorcas Bible Class and the Alice Dodds Missionary Society.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Homer Pettit, of Akron, and 49 nieces and nephews.
She was removed to the Shelley Funeral Home at Grove City where friends may call this afternoon and tonight. Services will be conducted at the funeral home at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon by Dr. B. H. Henderson, with burial following in Amity Cemetery.
*Published in The Record-Argus (Greenville Pennsylvania) April 12 1949.
Mrs. Julia Coulter Eakin, 82, resident of Grove City for 44 years, died at 11:00 Monday morning, April 11, 1949, at the Davis Invalid Home in Sharon. She had been a patient at the home since Jan. 4, 1943, when she was injured in a fall from a stepladder.
Mrs. Eakin was a widow of C.A. Eakin, who died last Jan. 22.
Deeply interested in church and missionary work, she left a sizable annuity with the foreign missions board of the United Presbyterian Church.
Born at Wesley on May 5, 1866, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Coulter, she united with the Amity United Presbyterian Church at an early age and was a leader of young people's work, a Sunday School teacher, organist and choir director there for many years. She was a teacher in Venango County Schools until her marriage April 13, 1893.
In 1897 Mr. and Mrs. Eakin moved to Eau Claire, Butler County, where they were engaged in mercantile business for several years. Mrs. Eakin became a charter member of the newly-organized United Presbyterian Church there and was active in Sunday School, choir and music work. Going to Grove City in 1904, she became an active member of the United Presbyterian Church and of the Dorcas Bible Class and the Alice Dodds Missionary Society.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Homer Pettit, of Akron, and 49 nieces and nephews.
She was removed to the Shelley Funeral Home at Grove City where friends may call this afternoon and tonight. Services will be conducted at the funeral home at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon by Dr. B. H. Henderson, with burial following in Amity Cemetery.
*Published in The Record-Argus (Greenville Pennsylvania) April 12 1949.
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