Post by Pat (Friend) Thompson on Jul 20, 2007 20:51:43 GMT -5
Mrs. Theodosia Friend DeWitt, widow of Truman C. DeWitt, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Peder Baasland, near Deep Creek Village, on Wednesday night, after having been a bed patient for fourteen years. She had been an invalid for forty years.
She was a daughter of the late Zadok and Alice Friend and was born in this county April 17, 1885. She was aged 71 years.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Peder Baasland, of Deep Creek, and Mrs. Carson Miller, of Oakland; a foster daughter, Mrs. Howard Berard, Baltimore; five grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Amy DeWitt, of Morgantown, W. Va. Her husband died in 1951.
Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Baasland home in charge of Rev. Ralph Jacks, of Sang Run. Interment will be in the Hoyes Run cemetery.
(Obit, hand dated, 1956)
She was a daughter of the late Zadok and Alice Friend and was born in this county April 17, 1885. She was aged 71 years.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Peder Baasland, of Deep Creek, and Mrs. Carson Miller, of Oakland; a foster daughter, Mrs. Howard Berard, Baltimore; five grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Amy DeWitt, of Morgantown, W. Va. Her husband died in 1951.
Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Baasland home in charge of Rev. Ralph Jacks, of Sang Run. Interment will be in the Hoyes Run cemetery.
(Obit, hand dated, 1956)