Daily Record (Wooster, Ohio) Feb 27, 1975
“Miss Drake of Wooster
Miss Mary J. Drake of 1553 Cleveland Road, Wooster, a resident of Wooster since 1944, died at Brenn-Field Nursing Center Wednesday.
Graveside service will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at a cemetery in Bedford. Rev. Paul Kerr will officiate at a memorial service Sunday at 4 p.m. at Central Christian Church, where Miss Drake had been a member for many years. There will be no calling hours. The family request that in lieu of flowers, friends who wish may contribute to Central Christian Church in her memory.
She was born on a farm near Bedford in 1877 to S. S. and Sarah Barlow Drake. Her paternal grandfather, who came to Ohio from Vermont in 1837, built the first brick house on the highway between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
Miss Drake was the oldest living alumnus of Dennison University, having graduated in 1900. She was an elementary school teacher for more than 40 years, having taught in public schools of Toledo and Minneapolis and at Coventry School in Cleveland Heights *.
The only survivors are three nephews, Alonzo Drake, Jr., Sheldon Drake, and Edwin Drake; and five nieces, Miss Sarah J. Painter, Mrs. Ray A. Griffith, Mrs. Fred A. Palmer, Mrs. W. Dean Hopkins and Mrs. Clarence Shankleton.
McIntire Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.”
*Note: the 1940 census for Wooster, Ohio, shows Mary, age 61, occupation Public School Teacher and gives her salary.
“Miss Drake of Wooster
Miss Mary J. Drake of 1553 Cleveland Road, Wooster, a resident of Wooster since 1944, died at Brenn-Field Nursing Center Wednesday.
Graveside service will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at a cemetery in Bedford. Rev. Paul Kerr will officiate at a memorial service Sunday at 4 p.m. at Central Christian Church, where Miss Drake had been a member for many years. There will be no calling hours. The family request that in lieu of flowers, friends who wish may contribute to Central Christian Church in her memory.
She was born on a farm near Bedford in 1877 to S. S. and Sarah Barlow Drake. Her paternal grandfather, who came to Ohio from Vermont in 1837, built the first brick house on the highway between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
Miss Drake was the oldest living alumnus of Dennison University, having graduated in 1900. She was an elementary school teacher for more than 40 years, having taught in public schools of Toledo and Minneapolis and at Coventry School in Cleveland Heights *.
The only survivors are three nephews, Alonzo Drake, Jr., Sheldon Drake, and Edwin Drake; and five nieces, Miss Sarah J. Painter, Mrs. Ray A. Griffith, Mrs. Fred A. Palmer, Mrs. W. Dean Hopkins and Mrs. Clarence Shankleton.
McIntire Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.”
*Note: the 1940 census for Wooster, Ohio, shows Mary, age 61, occupation Public School Teacher and gives her salary.
Daily Record (Wooster, Ohio) Feb 27, 1975
“Miss Drake of Wooster
Miss Mary J. Drake of 1553 Cleveland Road, Wooster, a resident of Wooster since 1944, died at Brenn-Field Nursing Center Wednesday.
Graveside service will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at a cemetery in Bedford. Rev. Paul Kerr will officiate at a memorial service Sunday at 4 p.m. at Central Christian Church, where Miss Drake had been a member for many years. There will be no calling hours. The family request that in lieu of flowers, friends who wish may contribute to Central Christian Church in her memory.
She was born on a farm near Bedford in 1877 to S. S. and Sarah Barlow Drake. Her paternal grandfather, who came to Ohio from Vermont in 1837, built the first brick house on the highway between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
Miss Drake was the oldest living alumnus of Dennison University, having graduated in 1900. She was an elementary school teacher for more than 40 years, having taught in public schools of Toledo and Minneapolis and at Coventry School in Cleveland Heights *.
The only survivors are three nephews, Alonzo Drake, Jr., Sheldon Drake, and Edwin Drake; and five nieces, Miss Sarah J. Painter, Mrs. Ray A. Griffith, Mrs. Fred A. Palmer, Mrs. W. Dean Hopkins and Mrs. Clarence Shankleton.
McIntire Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.”
*Note: the 1940 census for Wooster, Ohio, shows Mary, age 61, occupation Public School Teacher and gives her salary.
“Miss Drake of Wooster
Miss Mary J. Drake of 1553 Cleveland Road, Wooster, a resident of Wooster since 1944, died at Brenn-Field Nursing Center Wednesday.
Graveside service will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at a cemetery in Bedford. Rev. Paul Kerr will officiate at a memorial service Sunday at 4 p.m. at Central Christian Church, where Miss Drake had been a member for many years. There will be no calling hours. The family request that in lieu of flowers, friends who wish may contribute to Central Christian Church in her memory.
She was born on a farm near Bedford in 1877 to S. S. and Sarah Barlow Drake. Her paternal grandfather, who came to Ohio from Vermont in 1837, built the first brick house on the highway between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
Miss Drake was the oldest living alumnus of Dennison University, having graduated in 1900. She was an elementary school teacher for more than 40 years, having taught in public schools of Toledo and Minneapolis and at Coventry School in Cleveland Heights *.
The only survivors are three nephews, Alonzo Drake, Jr., Sheldon Drake, and Edwin Drake; and five nieces, Miss Sarah J. Painter, Mrs. Ray A. Griffith, Mrs. Fred A. Palmer, Mrs. W. Dean Hopkins and Mrs. Clarence Shankleton.
McIntire Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.”
*Note: the 1940 census for Wooster, Ohio, shows Mary, age 61, occupation Public School Teacher and gives her salary.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
