An undated photograph of the women of St. Andrew’s Church, Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Today the church is known as St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church.
Identified in the photo are:
Front Row: Mary Schwalm; Verna Stwiely; Doris Lettich; Sally Moyer; Mary Moyer; Mary Mentzer; Elva Miller; Alma Burnhart; Doris Koppenhaver; Eva Bixler; Helen Schwalm; Leona Miller; Sula Kahres; Eleanor Unger.
Second Row: Margaret Harner; Rev. A, Mentzer; Shirley Fetterolf; Bernice Williard; Mamie Wenrich; Grace Bixler; Ethel Bloch; Eva Legget; Lillie Zerbe; Mrs. Carrie Mentzer; Merle Zerbe; Bertha Shomper; Orpah Umholtz; Hilda Harner; Lucille Geist; Tiller Updegrove; Frances Herb; Laura Malich; Margret Smith; Helen Neitlinger; Wrela Wenrich; Sula Harner; Carolyn Miller.
Third Row: Marion Reed; Dora Baer; Jean Fronk; Roberta Spat; Inez Schwalm; Irene Troutman; Mary Maurer; Anna Bixler; Nora Underkoffler; Alice Schlegel; Evelyn Harner.
Fourth Row: Edna Dunleavy; Lottie Henry; Irene Kissinger; Octavia Bixler; Susana Herner; Mable Stutzman; Ethel Johns; Dottie Harner.
Fifth Row: Vewrna Schwalm; Bessie Bowman; Helen Lubold Smeltz; Eva Bateman; Martha Mayer; Mary Bixler; Elda Shade; Mabel Shadle; Eva Klinger.
Back row: Hannah Boyer Sitlinger; Hattie Keisling; Hilda Dunton; Annie Romberger; Alice Klinger; Eva [Sabatino] Schwalm; Naonia Harner; Harriet Bixler; Bernice Lucas; Alma Romberger.
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Image of photo contributed by Jeremiah Umholtz of Valley View, who reported the following: “My grandmother’s handwriting on the notebook paper that was laid in the folder with the picture…. I remember her and another church member sitting in her kitchen recording these names sometime around 2010 before she died….”
Jeremiah’s grandmother was Orpah [Bixler] Umholtz (1923-2015).
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