Beatrice Haxton
Dec 23, 1959
Miss Beatrice Haxton, 85, of Erie, died Wednesday, December 23, 1959, at Warren State Hospital.
Miss Haxton was born in Meadville, August 20, 1874, a daughter of Andrew and Thomasina Shear Haxton. She was employed for 25 years by the General Electric Co. at its Erie plant. In 1937, she became the first GE woman...
Roy S. Waid
Dec 22, 1959
Roy S. Waid, 66, of Blooming Valley, died Tuesday, December 22, 1959, at City Hospital where he had been a patient for one day.
He was born in Woodcock Township, January 12, 1893, a son of Gunnip and Anna Slocum Waid.
He married Lelah Roudebush, August 24, 1914.
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Hattie Flick Daniels
Dec 19, 1959
Mrs. Hattie Flick Daniels, 73, of Saegertown, died Saturday, December 19, 1959, at Spencer Hospital after a long illness. She had been in the hospital eight weeks. She was the widow of Herman W. Daniels, who died in 1945.
Mrs. Daniels was born April 3, 1886, in Woodcock Township, a daughter of Lee Burton and...
Andy Waid
Dec 17, 1959
Andy Waid, 90, father of Crawford County Sheriff, Andy F. Waid, died Thursday, December 17, 1959, at a nursing home in Daytona Beach, FL. He had lived in Daytona Beach for the past 12 years. He had been ill two months.
A retired Titusville merchant, where he lived for 34 years, he was a noted...
Pearl A. Miller
Dec 12, 1959
Mrs. Pearl A. Miller, wife of Lynn A. Miller, of Meadville, died Saturday December 12, 1959, at City Hospital after a long illness.
She was born in Meadville, a daughter of John and Matilda Prentice Houston. She married Miller June 2, 1917. She spent all her life in Meadville except for short periods in Titusville...
Benton C. Terrill
Dec 5, 1959
Benton C. (Ben) Terrill, 78, of Sadsbury Township, died Saturday, December 5, 1959 at City Hospital following a short illness. He was born November 12, 1881, at Guys Mills where he spent his early life. He was a son of Duane and Ianthia Britton Terrill. On February 5, 1907, he married Wave McFadden who survives. He was an employee...
Benton C. (Ben) Terrill
Dec 5, 1959
Benton C. (Ben) Terrill, 78, of Sadsbury Township, died Saturday, December 5, 1959 at City Hospital following a short illness.
He was born November 12, 1881, at Guys Mills where he spent his early life. He was a son of Duane and Ianthia Britton Terrill.
On February 5, 1907, he married...
Bessie Mae Goodell
Dec 1, 1959
Mrs. Bessie Mae Goodell, 82, died at the Methodist Home, Tuesday, December 1, 1959. She had been in ill health for some time and on November 11 had suffered a broken hip in a fall.
Mrs. Goodell was born at Lycippus, Westmoreland County, May 10, 1877. She was a daughter of Jacob S. and Catherine...
Effie A. Stainbrook
Nov 26, 1959
Mrs. Effie A. Stainbrook, 88, of Meadville, died at her home Thursday, November 26, 1959.
She was born in Pithole, Venango County, November 15, 1891, a daughter of Charles Wesley and Emily Smith Pond. Her parents pioneered in the oil industry from Pithole to various other locations and finally to Bartlesville, OK.
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Mae H. Fry
Nov 19, 1959
Mrs. Mae H. Fry, 90, of Meadville, died Thursday, November 19, 1959, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Charles (Marian) Custead of East Fallowfield Township, following a long illness. She was the widow of Samuel F. Fry, whom she married November 30, 1893.
Born in Meadville, January 21, 1869, she was a daughter of...
John L. Bates
Nov 19, 1959
John L. Bates, a partner in the Edward T. Bates Co. music store, died at his residence sometime late Wednesday of early Thursday morning, November 19, 1959.
A son of the late Alfred J. and Bertha S. Bates, he was born on February 20, 1902. He was graduated from Meadville High School where he was...
Paul Eugene Corey
Nov 11, 1959
Paul Eugene Corey, 64, of Guys Mills, died Wednesday, November 11, 1959, enroute to Spencer Hospital after being stricken at his garage in Frenchtown. He reportedly had suffered from a heart ailment for about a year.
Corey was an auto mechanic and owned and operated Frenchtown Garage. He had made his home in Randolph Township...
Richard Alton Burchard
Nov 1, 1959
Richard Alton Burchard, 36, of Guys Mills, who was injured in a three-vehicle crash on Route 27 early Friday morning, died Sunday, November 1, 1959 at Hamot Hospital in Erie.
Burchard had been in critical condition with a crushed chest at Titusville Hospital where X-rays showed multiple chest injuries. He then was transferred to Hamot...
Zadie Olivia Lawrence
Oct 28, 1959
Miss Zadie Olivia Lawrence, 85, formerly of Emlenton, died Wednesday, October 28, 1959, at the Methodist Home for the Aged, after an illness of two months.
Miss Lawrence was born in Scrubgrass Township, Venango County, January 12, 1874, a daughter of John E. and Elizabeth H. Ogden Lawrence. She was self-employed as a seamstress and...
Carlyle A. Russell
Oct 28, 1959
Carlyle (Carl) A. Russell, 75, of Meadville, died at his home Wednesday, October 28, 1959. Russell was born in Richmond Township, January 6, 1884, a son of Almond and Alice Radle Russell. He married Mary Wright, April 12, 1904. Before retiring, he had been employed for 17 years at Talon, Inc., previously had been a farmer in Randolph Township....
Catherine S. Whitlock Hendershot
Oct 28, 1959
Mrs. Catherine S. Whitlock Hendershot, widow of R. Elmer Hendershot, died at her home in Meadville, Wednesday, October 28, 1959. She would have been 94 on Sunday.
Mrs. Hendershot, long active in the city's civic and cultural organizations, was born at Marlboro, NJ, November 1, 1865. With her husband, she came to Meadville in 1901,...
Carlyle A. (Carl) Russell
Oct 28, 1959
Carlyle (Carl) A. Russell, 75, of Meadville, died at his home Wednesday, October 28, 1959.
Russell was born in Richmond Township, January 6, 1884, a son of Almond and Alice Radle Russell. He married Mary Wright, April 12, 1904. Before retiring, he had been employed for 17 years at Talon, Inc., previously had been a...
Mylo Putman
Oct 26, 1959
Mylo Putman, 91, formerly of Waterford, died at the Methodist Home, Monday afternoon, October 26, 1959, following a brief illness.
He was born at Centerville, November 6, 1868, a son of John and Eleanor Hall Putman. He married the former Laura Keeler.
Much of his life was spent in Crawford County,...
Lee I. Graham
Oct 25, 1959
Lee I. Graham, 83, of Meadville, died Sunday, October 25, 1959, at Spencer Hospital where he had been a patient for a week.
Graham was born at Deckards in Wayne Township, February 28, 1876, a son of Benjamin and Blanche McIroy Graham. He had been a farmer most of his life and before his retirement...
Elizabeth Jackson Gehr
Oct 15, 1959
Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson Gehr, 89, formerly of Harmonsburg, died Thursday, October 15, 1959, at Summerfield, FL, where she had lived for the past 15 years.
Mrs. Gehr was born at Kinsman, OH, September 10, 1870, a daughter of William and Hannah (Betts) Jackson. She was married to Almond Gehr, who died in 1903.
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