MRS. MARY RUTH (BUHRMAN) SWOPE, aged 44 years, wife of Alvey O. Swope, died at her home 230 East Main street, at 10 o'clock this morning after a lingering illness of fifteen months.
She had been confined to her bed for the last year. Death was due to complication of diseases.
She was born at Fountaindale, Adams county, the daughter of Henry R. and Mary Jane (McIntire) Buhrman, and lived there until she was fourteen years of age and spent the remainder of her life here with the exception of a year and a half in New Jersey. She attended the public schools in Waynesboro.
She was a member of St. Andrew's Roman Catholic church and also a member Of Solidity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and also a member of the League of the Sacred Heart.
Surviving are her husband and the following, children: Bernard, of San Francisco, Calif., Isabelle and Frederick, at home. Her father, H. R. Buhrman, 230 East Main street; four brothers, Charles, north of town, O'Connell, Marion, Pa., Leo, Philadelphia, and Eugene, Chambersburg, and two sisters, Mrs. Anthony Karukas, Baltimore, and Mrs. Earl
Lochbaum, Chambarsburg, also survive.
Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic church, and the requiem high mass will be celebrated by Rev. Fr. W. J. O'Callaghan.
Interment will be made in the Catholic cemetery.
The body may be viewed from Wednesday evening until the hour of the funeral at the late home.
Source : The Record Herald Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Tuesday, December 12, 1933
Obituary provided by Melvin L. Halterman FAG # 130350351.
MRS. MARY RUTH (BUHRMAN) SWOPE, aged 44 years, wife of Alvey O. Swope, died at her home 230 East Main street, at 10 o'clock this morning after a lingering illness of fifteen months.
She had been confined to her bed for the last year. Death was due to complication of diseases.
She was born at Fountaindale, Adams county, the daughter of Henry R. and Mary Jane (McIntire) Buhrman, and lived there until she was fourteen years of age and spent the remainder of her life here with the exception of a year and a half in New Jersey. She attended the public schools in Waynesboro.
She was a member of St. Andrew's Roman Catholic church and also a member Of Solidity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and also a member of the League of the Sacred Heart.
Surviving are her husband and the following, children: Bernard, of San Francisco, Calif., Isabelle and Frederick, at home. Her father, H. R. Buhrman, 230 East Main street; four brothers, Charles, north of town, O'Connell, Marion, Pa., Leo, Philadelphia, and Eugene, Chambersburg, and two sisters, Mrs. Anthony Karukas, Baltimore, and Mrs. Earl
Lochbaum, Chambarsburg, also survive.
Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic church, and the requiem high mass will be celebrated by Rev. Fr. W. J. O'Callaghan.
Interment will be made in the Catholic cemetery.
The body may be viewed from Wednesday evening until the hour of the funeral at the late home.
Source : The Record Herald Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Tuesday, December 12, 1933
Obituary provided by Melvin L. Halterman FAG # 130350351.
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