OBIT: Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" SPIKER, 1940, of interest in Somerset County, PA
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MARY ELIZABETH SPIKER
Grantsville, Maryland
Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Spiker, aged 61, died early Thursday morning, Aug. 29,
at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Guerney Spiker, near
here, after an illness of several years. Her death was due to diabetes and
Brights disease.
Mrs. Spiker was born Aug. 24, 1879, a daughter of the late Elizabeth and
Thomas Spiker. She married John Pierce, from whom she was divorced about ten
years ago, resuming her maiden name. Surviving are one son, James Pierce, Gray,
Pa., and one daughter, Mrs. Guerney Spiker, Grantsville. Six sisters, Mrs.
Thomas B. McKenzie, and Mrs. Carrie Swauger, Grantsville; Mrs. James O. Spiker,
Uniontown; Mrs. George Legeer, Accident; Mrs. Noria Platter and Mrs. Louis
Hoover, Jennings, and two brothers, Fred Spiker, Jennings, and William Spiker,
Cumberland.
Mrs. Spiker was a member of the Casselman Mennonite Church, where funeral
services were held at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Rev. Roy Kinsinger,
pastor, officiated.
Meyersdale Republican, September 5, 1940