OBIT: Mayme Ann (KIMMEL) MAUST, 1946, Springs, Somerset County, PA

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MAYME ANN MAUST

  Mrs. Norman S. Maust, who was for many years the correspondent of the 
Meyersdale Republican at Springs, and an outstanding citizen of that community, 
passed away at 2:30 p.m. last Saturday at her home after a lingering illness.  
She had been sick since 1941.
  She was born in Milford Township, this county, July 16, 1879, and was aged 66 
years, 6 months and 10 days.  Her maiden name was Mayme Ann Kimmel, a daughter 
of the late W. J. and Frances (Will) Kimmel.
  In her youth she lived on her father's farm and attended the nearby district 
school and normal school in Meyersdale to prepare herself for teaching.  She 
taught one term in her native township, one term at Fairhope and three terms in 
Elk Lick Township.
  It was while she was teaching in Elk Lick that she became acquainted with 
Norman S. Maust, a sterling young man of the Springs community, whom she married 
on Christmas Day, 1904.  They established their home at Springs where they lived 
happily together the remainder of her life - more than 41 years.
  Mrs. Maust became a member of the Christian Church during her girlhood, but 
after her marriage, she thought it best to unite with the church her husband 
belonged to, the Mennonite church which predominates in the Springs community.  
Until her health failed, she was a regular attendant and active and faithful 
worker in the Springs Mennonite Church, its Sunday school sewing circle and 
various other activities of the congregation. 
  To Mr. and Mrs. Maust, eight children were born, five sons and three 
daughters.  One son, Clifford, lived only two weeks.  Surviving and grown to 
manhood and womanhood are the seven others, namely: Herbert, Maytown, Pa.; Paul, 
Montgomery, Ind.; Miss Alma, school teacher, Marshallville, Ohio; Elta, (Mrs. 
Allen Swartzentruber) Pigeon, Mich.; John, Springs, Pa.; Claude, Grottoes, Va., 
and Miss Freda, at home with her father.
  Surviving also besides the children named and their father are 14 
grandchildren and four sisters and one brother of Mrs. Maust: Mrs. Nell Bruner, 
Somerset R.D.; Mrs. Carrie Enfield, Somerset; Mrs. Alice Knepper, Rockwood R.D.; 
Mrs. Vida Gross, Rockwood, and Paul Kimmel, Tyrone, Pa.
  Funeral services in the Springs church, Tuesday afternoon, were largely 
attended by relatives and friends from far and near.  The rites of the church 
were conducted by the local ministers, Walter and Roy Otto.  Burial arrangements 
were in charge of William Winterberg, Grantsville mortician.  Interment was made 
in the Springs cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, January 31, 1946