MRS. AMANDA HARTMAN, 91, BURIED MONDAY
Mrs. Amanda Hartman, age 91 years, 3 months and 5 days, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Ida Bowman, West Broad Street, Friday, November 4th [1932]. She had been in ill health for some time, and her death resulted from the infirmities incident to old age.
She was born in Mifflin Township, in what is now a part of Washington Township, February 9, 1841. She was a daughter of the late John Cooper and Polly [Miller] Cooper and was a member of the Zion Reformed Church at Rife. Her husband, Henry Hartman, died many years ago, while they lived on a farm 2 1/2 miles north of this place [Elizabethville]. The farm was at one time owned by the late Joseph Sultzbaugh, and at present by Ira Mauser. Two years after the death of her husband, Mrs. Hartman removed to this place where she had resided to the time of her death. She had made her home with Mrs. Bowman for twelve years.
Brief services were held from Mrs. Bowman’s residence at ten o’clock Monday morning, followed by services in St. John’s Lutheran Church near Berrysburg. Rev. Stanley Baker, pastor of the Rife Reformed Church and Rev. R. E. Kramer, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church officiated. Interment was made in the adjoining cemetery.
Only the following nephews and nieces are the survivors: Mrs. Ida Bowman, Mrs. Jacob Hoover, Mrs. Charles Schreffler, Mrs. Reuben Wenrich, Elizabethville; Mrs. Jacob O. Matter, Harrisburg; Mrs. Julia Row, Lykens. R.D. 2; Mrs. Polly Graeff, Millersburg; Mrs. Mary Schantz, Pennsburg; Mrs. H. F. Chaundy, Philadelphia; Mrs. Jacob Wetzler, Glenside; Jacob Lebo, Millersburg R.D.; Samuel Cooper, Elizabethville; Henry Miller, Millersburg; Amos Cooper, Millersburg R.D. 2; William Cooper, Millersburg R.D. 2; William Cooper, Lykens; Monroe Cooper, Washington Township; Joel Miller, Lykens R.D. 1; Charles Cooper, Harrisburg; Edward Cooper, Watkins, New York.
Floral offerings included, casket spray, Mrs. Ida Bowman and son Harry Bowman; roses and chrysanthemums; spray chrysanthemums, Samuel Cooper and Reuben Wenrich family; spray carnations, fraternity house, Elaia, State College; basket carnations and spray mixed flowers, neighbors and friends.
CARD OF THANKS – Mrs. Ida Bowman and son Harry Bowman wish to extend their appreciation to friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted….
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From a local newspaper at the time of her death, 1932.
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