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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Henry M. Freyermuth

Oct 13, 1959

Henry M. Freyermuth, 77, of East Fairfield Township, where he had lived all his life, died at his home Tuesday, October 13, 1959, after an illness of about a year.

He was born in East Fairfield Township, January 21, 1882, a son of Jacob and Catherine (Stein) Freyermuth.  He was married to Irene Reitze, December...

Elsie Garrison Hilliard

Oct 8, 1959

Mrs. Elsie Garrison Hilliard, 82, wife of Lewis M. Hilliard of Meadville, died at her home Thursday, October 8, 1959, after a short illness.

Mrs. Hilliard was born in Geneva, November 8, 1876, a daughter of David M. and Anna Sutton Garrison.  She moved here from Franklin in 1912.  She married Hilliard April 8, 1899. ...