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Edith Mae <I>Blough</I> Weaver-Mann

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Edith Mae Blough Weaver-Mann

Birth
Hollsopple, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
26 Oct 2010 (aged 105)
Davidsville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Richland Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec 6-lot 161 1/2
Memorial ID
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After her first husband Ulysses Grant Weaver died, she remarried in 1984, Richmond, Wayne Co., IN to William Henry Mann (who was also married and widowed). They lived in Indiana, and looks like they wintered in Florida, he died in Sarasota in 1993. He is buried in Prairie Street Cem, Elkhart with his first wife. (FAG 65560659)
Edith May Blough Mann died Oct. 26, 2010, last benefit went to Florida, so I assume she died there.
(contributor-Shari)

October 29, 2010
Edith (Blough) Weaver-Mann
Obit:
JOHNSTOWN — WEAVER-MANN – Edith (Blough), 105, died Oct. 26, 2010. Born July 29, 1905, near Johnstown, to John A. and Emma Jane (Gashaw) Blough. She attended Ferndale High School, later graduating from Eastern Mennonite High School, Harrisonburg, Va., in 1926. She attended Millersville State Teachers College and taught in a public school in Lancaster. In 1928, she married U. Grant Weaver, who was a school teacher for most of his life. After moving back to Johnstown, she and Grant became involved, along with others, in founding of First Mennonite Church, Johnstown, where she served as primary superintendent for many years. She also was a substitute teacher in various schools in the area and was literature secretary for the Allegheny Mennonite Conference WMSA. She and Grant moved to Sarasota, Fla., in 1964. While there, she served as librarian in the Bay Shore Mennonite Church and was a book reviewer on a weekly radio program called the Book-Nook. In 1977, she and Grant were privileged to tour the Holy Land, as well as Switzerland, Holland and Germany. Grant died in 1981. She married William Mann from Elkhart, Ind., and Sarasota in 1984. They had nine good years together in Sarasota and Elkhart, having traveled to Hawaii, Alaska and Arizona, visiting family and friends. Bill died in 1993. Edith moved to Laurel View Village, Davidsville, in 1999, wishing to move "back to her roots." Survivors include her son, Herbert Weaver, and wife, Rebecca, Bradenton, Fla.; daughter, Virginia, and husband, Keith Esch, Richmond, Ind.; sisters, Irma Black, Arkansas; and Ruth Stoltzfus, Lancaster; brother, Merle, Davidsville; stepdaughter, Phyllis Weaver, and husband, Mike, Elkhart, Ind.; stepson, Donald Mann, and wife, Jackie, Elkhart; stepdaughter, Carol, Goshen, Ind.; and nine grandchildren; also numerous great-grandchildren, stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren. Preceded in death by three brothers, two sisters and a stepson. By request, there will be no public visitation. Family and friends are invited to attend a memorial service at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, in the chapel at Laurel View Village, Pastor Wes Yoder. Arrangements by Henderson Funeral Home, East Hills.
(contributor- Roger Luther)
After her first husband Ulysses Grant Weaver died, she remarried in 1984, Richmond, Wayne Co., IN to William Henry Mann (who was also married and widowed). They lived in Indiana, and looks like they wintered in Florida, he died in Sarasota in 1993. He is buried in Prairie Street Cem, Elkhart with his first wife. (FAG 65560659)
Edith May Blough Mann died Oct. 26, 2010, last benefit went to Florida, so I assume she died there.
(contributor-Shari)

October 29, 2010
Edith (Blough) Weaver-Mann
Obit:
JOHNSTOWN — WEAVER-MANN – Edith (Blough), 105, died Oct. 26, 2010. Born July 29, 1905, near Johnstown, to John A. and Emma Jane (Gashaw) Blough. She attended Ferndale High School, later graduating from Eastern Mennonite High School, Harrisonburg, Va., in 1926. She attended Millersville State Teachers College and taught in a public school in Lancaster. In 1928, she married U. Grant Weaver, who was a school teacher for most of his life. After moving back to Johnstown, she and Grant became involved, along with others, in founding of First Mennonite Church, Johnstown, where she served as primary superintendent for many years. She also was a substitute teacher in various schools in the area and was literature secretary for the Allegheny Mennonite Conference WMSA. She and Grant moved to Sarasota, Fla., in 1964. While there, she served as librarian in the Bay Shore Mennonite Church and was a book reviewer on a weekly radio program called the Book-Nook. In 1977, she and Grant were privileged to tour the Holy Land, as well as Switzerland, Holland and Germany. Grant died in 1981. She married William Mann from Elkhart, Ind., and Sarasota in 1984. They had nine good years together in Sarasota and Elkhart, having traveled to Hawaii, Alaska and Arizona, visiting family and friends. Bill died in 1993. Edith moved to Laurel View Village, Davidsville, in 1999, wishing to move "back to her roots." Survivors include her son, Herbert Weaver, and wife, Rebecca, Bradenton, Fla.; daughter, Virginia, and husband, Keith Esch, Richmond, Ind.; sisters, Irma Black, Arkansas; and Ruth Stoltzfus, Lancaster; brother, Merle, Davidsville; stepdaughter, Phyllis Weaver, and husband, Mike, Elkhart, Ind.; stepson, Donald Mann, and wife, Jackie, Elkhart; stepdaughter, Carol, Goshen, Ind.; and nine grandchildren; also numerous great-grandchildren, stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren. Preceded in death by three brothers, two sisters and a stepson. By request, there will be no public visitation. Family and friends are invited to attend a memorial service at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, in the chapel at Laurel View Village, Pastor Wes Yoder. Arrangements by Henderson Funeral Home, East Hills.
(contributor- Roger Luther)


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