Miss Mirmie A. Rupp, died Monday at 2:30 a.m. in the General Hospital at the age 100. She had been a patient two weeks. , She was a guest at the Pleasant View Rest Home. Manheim R3, for the past two years.
Miss Rupp was honored by the State Medical Society on her 100th birthday anniversary on Feb. 26. Dr. Charles E. Weaver presented her with a plaque from the society. She also received birthday greetings from President Eisen hower.
Miss Rupp remembered vividly the rebel invasion of Pennsylvania during the Civil War, although she was only four years old, when the soldiers came to her family's farm for food and horses. She was born on a farm near Shiremanstown, Cumbe rland County, a daughter of the late Henry and Nancy Hurst Rupp Her father was in the nursery business. She attributed her long life to work out of doors on the farm in her early years. At the Rest Home she was known as "Aunt Minnie" and had a fondness for children. She took her nieces and nephews on picnics many times when she was younger.
She was a member of the Slate Hill Mennonite Church and taught the beginner's class of the Sunday school for more than 50 years.
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 14 Jul 1959, Tue, Page 2
Miss Rupp was honored by the State Medical Society on her 100th birthday anniversary on Feb. 26. Dr. Charles E. Weaver presented her with a plaque from the society. She also received birthday greetings from President Eisen hower.
Miss Rupp remembered vividly the rebel invasion of Pennsylvania during the Civil War, although she was only four years old, when the soldiers came to her family's farm for food and horses. She was born on a farm near Shiremanstown, Cumbe rland County, a daughter of the late Henry and Nancy Hurst Rupp Her father was in the nursery business. She attributed her long life to work out of doors on the farm in her early years. At the Rest Home she was known as "Aunt Minnie" and had a fondness for children. She took her nieces and nephews on picnics many times when she was younger.
She was a member of the Slate Hill Mennonite Church and taught the beginner's class of the Sunday school for more than 50 years.
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 14 Jul 1959, Tue, Page 2
Miss Mirmie A. Rupp, died Monday at 2:30 a.m. in the General Hospital at the age 100. She had been a patient two weeks. , She was a guest at the Pleasant View Rest Home. Manheim R3, for the past two years.
Miss Rupp was honored by the State Medical Society on her 100th birthday anniversary on Feb. 26. Dr. Charles E. Weaver presented her with a plaque from the society. She also received birthday greetings from President Eisen hower.
Miss Rupp remembered vividly the rebel invasion of Pennsylvania during the Civil War, although she was only four years old, when the soldiers came to her family's farm for food and horses. She was born on a farm near Shiremanstown, Cumbe rland County, a daughter of the late Henry and Nancy Hurst Rupp Her father was in the nursery business. She attributed her long life to work out of doors on the farm in her early years. At the Rest Home she was known as "Aunt Minnie" and had a fondness for children. She took her nieces and nephews on picnics many times when she was younger.
She was a member of the Slate Hill Mennonite Church and taught the beginner's class of the Sunday school for more than 50 years.
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 14 Jul 1959, Tue, Page 2
Miss Rupp was honored by the State Medical Society on her 100th birthday anniversary on Feb. 26. Dr. Charles E. Weaver presented her with a plaque from the society. She also received birthday greetings from President Eisen hower.
Miss Rupp remembered vividly the rebel invasion of Pennsylvania during the Civil War, although she was only four years old, when the soldiers came to her family's farm for food and horses. She was born on a farm near Shiremanstown, Cumbe rland County, a daughter of the late Henry and Nancy Hurst Rupp Her father was in the nursery business. She attributed her long life to work out of doors on the farm in her early years. At the Rest Home she was known as "Aunt Minnie" and had a fondness for children. She took her nieces and nephews on picnics many times when she was younger.
She was a member of the Slate Hill Mennonite Church and taught the beginner's class of the Sunday school for more than 50 years.
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 14 Jul 1959, Tue, Page 2
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