OBIT: Sarah Elizabeth (COLEMAN) MENGES, 1943, Berlin, Somerset County, PA

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SARAH ELIZABETH MENGES

  Sarah Elizabeth (Coleman) Menges was born to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Coleman at 
Berlin, Pa., July 22, 1861, and died June 18, 1943 at the age of 81 years, 10 
months and 26 days, the wife of Thomas Menges of Berlin.
  She will be remembered by her numerous friends as having a kind, encouraging 
and interesting disposition.  She was always sympathetic in trouble, and had a 
gift of "lightness" to lift her fellow beings.  Among her last conversation with 
her family, she realized her physical weakness and was reconciled.  She said, 
"all things must come to an end," and truly expected it.
  She is survived by her husband and three children - Annie, the widow of John 
A. Thomas, Ben F., both of Berlin, and William T., of Keysers's Ridge, Md.  Also 
surviving are 12 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Dennis 
Bockes, Garrett, and one brother, Ben Coleman, who made his home with the 
Menges'.  One son, Ralph, was killed in a coal mine about a decade of years ago.
  Funeral services were conducted at her home, last Sunday afternoon, at 2:30, 
by her pastor, Rev. Harry Peterson of the Berlin Methodist Church, followed by 
interment in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.  Johnson & Son of Berlin had charge of the 
funeral arrangements.

Meyersdale Republican, June 24, 1943