"Ma" Abraham, who died yesterday at 101 years of age, one of the legendary personages of Reading's famous "Irishtown", will be buried Saturday afternoon in the German Lutheran Cemetary on South Street, a short distance from her frame house on the top of Maple Street hill. Funeral services will be conducted by the F.F. Seidel, Inc., funeral hoe, on Saturday at 1:30 p.m., the Rev. Robert H. Ischinger, pastor of St. John'a German Lutheran Church, Officiating. The gentle and belovedcentarian, who had lived in the historic section of Reading for the past 75 years, died at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday morning after a brief illness that developed into pneumonia. Besides her sons and daughters, there survive 15 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.
(Reading Eagle-1/16/1941)
(Reading Eagle-1/16/1941)
"Ma" Abraham, who died yesterday at 101 years of age, one of the legendary personages of Reading's famous "Irishtown", will be buried Saturday afternoon in the German Lutheran Cemetary on South Street, a short distance from her frame house on the top of Maple Street hill. Funeral services will be conducted by the F.F. Seidel, Inc., funeral hoe, on Saturday at 1:30 p.m., the Rev. Robert H. Ischinger, pastor of St. John'a German Lutheran Church, Officiating. The gentle and belovedcentarian, who had lived in the historic section of Reading for the past 75 years, died at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday morning after a brief illness that developed into pneumonia. Besides her sons and daughters, there survive 15 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.
(Reading Eagle-1/16/1941)
(Reading Eagle-1/16/1941)
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