News: 1917 Deaths From the Lititz Record, Lititz, Lancaster County, PA Contributed and transcribed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Abby Bowman Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/lancaster/ _______________________________________________ Transcriber's Note: The list below was orginally in date order. It was changed to alphabetical when transcribed. From the Lititz Record, January 3, 1918 1917 DEATH ROLL MANY PERSONS SUCCUMBED TO THE INEVITABLE DURING THE PAST YEAR. Grim Reaper Was No Respector of Persons and the List of Departed Ones is Large. Another year has come and gone and the grip reaper death has been unusually active during 1917. Many persons have departed this life, among them being a large number from Lititz and its vicinity. The following is the death list for the year, giving the date of death, place, name, age and place of interment. Death Date Last Name First/Middle MM/DD Place of Death Age Place of Interment Comments Adair Mrs. Harry R. 11/29 St. Joseph's Hospital-Lancaster 32y Penryn Reformed Adams James Richard 09/10 Lancaster General Hospital 2y Rothsville Lutheran Son of William & Annie Adams of Millway Adams Mrs. Benjamin 09/30 Millport 54y Millport Union Adams Mrs. Isaac 03/12 Millport 62y Zion Brethren-Rothsville Ansbach Albert James 03/22 Elizabeth Twp 1y Annville Son of Harry & Annie Ansbach Baker Enos R. 12/13 St. Joseph's Hospital-Lancaster 52y Moravian of Lititz Barr Mrs. E. B. 07/14 Lititz 43y Moravian Bear Mrs. Alexander 01/27 Lititz 64y Moravian Bechler Emma Louisa 04/27 Lititz 63y Moravian Beck Mrs. Abraham R. 11/14 Lititz 78y Moravian Becker Caroline 01/10 Warwick Twp 82y Hess' Becker Eliza G. (Mrs.) 05/13 Manheim 83y Fairview Bender Elvina (Mrs.) 03/21 Penn Twp 84y Petersburg Mennonite Bender Jacob 09/10 Lititz 83y Longenecker's Bentley Sarah (Mrs.) 10/11 United Zion Home-near Lititz 74y Home cemetery Bingaman Samuel 01/14 Near Clay 61y Emanuel Lutheran-Brickerville Binkley Leroy 11/11 Oregon 4y Hess' Son of Enos & Emma Binkley Boll Mary (Mrs.) 05/16 Penn Twp 74y Hernley's Bollinger Henry 01/24 Clay Twp 74y Middle Creek Bomberger Emanuel 08/20 Elizabeth Twp 27y Erb's Borry Mrs. Harrison 01/17 Clay Twp 57y Hopeland U. B. Borry Mrs. Hiram 10/21 Clay Twp 75y Emanuel Lutheran-Brickerville Bossler Elizabeth (Mrs.) 08/22 East Petersburg 96y Mennonite Bowers Fannie (Miss) 08/06 Neffsville 86y Silver Spring Boyd Minnie 10/09 Penn Twp 14y Fairview-Manheim Dau of Clement G. Boyd Breitigan Mrs. Paul 01/31 Lexington 27y Penryn Reformed Bringolf John 02/21 Brethren Home, Near Neffsville 78y East Petersburg Lutheran Brock William C. 01/13 Lancaster 58y Lititz Moravian Brown Erla 08/07 Manheim 28y Hernley's Brubaker Aaron H. 11/01 Clay Twp 75y Hess' Brubaker John S. 02/02 Neffsville 80y Neffsville Lutheran Brubaker Mrs. Nathan 01/29 Neffsville 65y Longenecker's Bruckart Mary (Miss) 02/17 Lititz 21y Moravian Bubb Charles 03/02 United Zion Home-north of Lititz 85y Home cemetery Buch Mrs. George 06/03 Lititz 65y United Evangelical Burkey Albert W. 08/30 Lititz 4m United Evangelical Son of Albert Burkey Burkholder Hettie (Mrs.) 11/19 Lititz 80y Groffdale Burkholder Mrs. Amos S. 12/10 Lititz 61y Moravian Carpenter Alverta Elmira 02/20 Lititz 3m Machpelah Dau of Clarence & Mabel Carpenter Carper Henry K. 09/03 Penn Twp 57y East Petersburg Mennonite Chronister John 11/01 St. Joseph's Hospital-Lancaster 53y Fairview-Manheim Cofroth John 01/22 Brownstown 78y Carpenter's Crawford B. Frank 02/09 Lititz 28y Machpelah Crawford Susanna (Mrs.) 06/26 Manheim 79y Penryn Reformed Danner George F. 05/07 Manheim 82y Fairview Daveler Leah (Miss) 10/09 Lancaster 73y Kissel Hill Diffenderfer Maurice 09/19 East Petersburg 45y East Petersburg Mennonite Dissinger Mrs. John P. 08/03 Akron 49y Akron Evangelical Dommoyer Benjamin 01/04 Clay Twp 73y Hopeland U. B. Doster Maria (Mrs.) 05/04 Lincoln 76y Middle Creek Eberly Jonas 02/23 Lititz 57y Hess' Eberly Mary Ann (Mrs.) 01/04 Clay Twp 78y Hammer Creek Ebling Ellen (Mrs.) 06/04 Lititz 85y Blainsport Ecenrode Mark 09/24 Warwick Twp 9m Longenecker's Inf son of William & Anna Ecenrode Ecenroed Mrs. Christian 07/24 Akron 67y Steinmetz Ehrhart Alexander 05/29 Near Neffsville 79y Landis Valley Eichholtz Elizabeth C. (Miss) 11/18 United Zion Home-near Lititz 78y Mt. Joy Eliza Miller (Mrs.) 11/26 United Zion Home-near Lititz 86y Middle Creek Enck David S. 05/16 Hopeland 83y Hopeland U. B. Engle Kate (Mrs.) 05/19 Hopeland 77y Hopeland U. B. Erb Anna G. (Mrs.) 02/08 East Petersburg 56y Mennonite Erb Israel G. 05/08 Seaford, Del. 73y Erb's-Penn Twp Erb Susan (Mrs.) 11/11 Parsonsburg, Md. 75y Erb's Ervin Mrs. William 07/06 Lincoln 30y Reformed-Lincoln Farmer Elizabeth (Mrs.) 03/29 Lititz 79y Rothsville Lutheran Farmer Lewis 06/06 Manheim 68y Fairview Fasnacht Edith 01/18 Lincoln 7y Middle Creek Dau of Mr & Mrs Harvey Fasnacht Fasnacht Elizabeth (Mrs.) 11/28 Near Lincoln 70y Middle Creek Fidler Peter B. 02/02 Clay Twp 71y Hopeland U. B. Firestone Helen Marie 10/03 Lititz 2m Zion Home Inf child of Harry & Mary Firestone Firestone Isaac 12/10 County Hospital 62y Longenecker's Foltz Jacob S. 01/14 Petersburg 82y East Petersburg Mennonite Foreman Abram G. 05/17 Kissel Hill 56y Neffsville U. B. Fritz William 02/06 County Hospital 84y New Zion - Rothsville Fry Amanda (Mrs.) 05/19 Halfville 58y Hess' Fry Elizabeth (Mrs.) 03/02 Ephrata 86y Muddy Creek Gable Mrs. William S. 04/28 Warwick Twp 72y Rothsville Lutheran Galebach Fred. 06/12 Penn Twp 75y Penryn Lutheran Garman Mary Elizabeth 01/21 Lititz 17m Brownstone Evangelical Dau of Mr & Mrs Harry Garman Getz Mrs. M. M. 12/06 Brownstown 75y Evangelical Geyer Mrs. George S. 12/23 Lancaster 77y Rothsville Lutheran Gibbel Elmer H. 08/13 Penn Twp 6m Longenecker's Son of Harrison Gibbel Gibbel Robert Ellwood 12/23 Lititz 6m United Zion Home cemetery Son of Dallas & Maude Gibbel Gohn Mrs. Jerome 02/12 Manheim 62y Fairview Good Savilla (Mrs.) 10/19 Neffsville 80y Rauck's U. B. Gottschall Mrs. Adam H. 07/14 East Petersburg 64y Petersburg Reformed Green Erastus 01/23 Brethren Home, Near Neffsville 63y Dallastown Haag James B. 10/20 Lititz 62y Belleman church-Berks county Habecker Abram 05/30 Lancaster 75y Hess' - near Lititz Hacker Elias O. 02/22 Lincoln 64y Lincoln Lutheran Hacker Mrs. Elias O. 02/18 Lincoln 63y Zion Reformed-Lincoln Hackman Henry C. 09/19 Akron 60y Rothsville Lutheran Hackman Lizzie (Mrs.) 06/28 Warwick Twp 74y St. John's Lutheran-Brickerville Hackman Mrs. Willis B. 08/27 Warwick Twp 37y Millport Hagenberger Samuel 09/15 Warwick Twp 71y Neffsville U. B. Haldeman Jacob 08/30 Millport 75y Leacock Harnish Jacob F. 08/28 East Petersburg 89y Mennonite Hartman Anna (Mrs.) 08/14 Philadelphia 89y Erb's Hartranft John 01/15 Brickerville 82y St. John's Lutheran Hauck Mrs. Adam 01/05 Neffsville 72y Landis Valley Heinsey Nancy (Mrs.) 05/12 Brethren Home, Near Neffsville 79y Brethren Home cemetery Heisey Abraham 11/29 Schoeneck 47y Emanuel Lutheran-Brickerville Heistand Rebecca (Mrs.) 01/26 Penn Twp 51y Chickies Heitler Mrs. James A. 05/02 Rothsville 77y Middle Creek Hershey Helen Jane 07/13 Lititz 11y Machpelah Hess Christian B. 03/16 Near Akron 76y Groffdale Mennonite Hess Mrs. Peter B. 12/22 Warwick Twp 63y Hess' Hilton Clayton 01/16 Lexington 29y Penryn Lutheran Hippert Isaac 09/09 United Zion Home-near Lititz 74y United Zion Home cemetery Hoerger John 07/29 Warwick Twp 55y Machpelah Hoffer Hiram 05/22 Manheim 77y Fairview Hollinger Mrs. Jacob 02/04 Near Brownstown 53y Landis Valley Mennonite Hollinger Paul 07/02 Penn Twp 12y Penryn Lutheran Son of David G. & Minnie Hollinger Hoover John G. 06/12 Lititz 57y Longenecker's Hornberger Amanda (Mrs.) 11/13 Lancaster General Hospital 68y United Evangelical Hottenstein Fannie A. (Miss) 08/17 Lancaster General Hospital 41y East Petersburg Mennonite Huebener Mary (Mrs.) 03/06 Lititz 74y Moravian Keath Carl Henry 02/05 Penryn 5y Penryn Reformed Son of Henry & Mary Keath Keller Jacob G. 01/20 Brethren Home, Near Neffsville 86y Machpelah-Lititz Keller Mrs. Daniel G. 07/11 Lititz 38y Mohnton Keller Mrs. Henry G. 07/22 Lititz 43y Machpelah Kiehl Clarence 09/12 East Petersburg 31y East Petersburg Kiehl Mrs. Reuben 07/02 Near Lexington 38y Neffsville Lutheran Killian Diller C. 03/20 Brownstown 53y Mechanicsburg Kline George 02/08 Brunnerville 1y St. John's Lutheran-Brickerville Son of Harvey & Stella Kline Kline Lee Randolph 09/20 Hopeland 1y Hopeland Son of Harry & Alice Kline Kling Frederick 01/13 Lititz 83y Moravian Koser John 12/01 Lititz 81y Hernley's Kreider Amos 06/18 East Petersburg 75y Mennonite Kreider John 05/18 Lancaster General Hospital 73y East Petersburg Mennonite of East Petersburg Kreider Kate (Mrs.) 02/24 Manheim 45y East Petersburg Kreiner Daniel 11/24 Lititz 71y United Evangelical Kulp Martin 10/03 Millport 81y Landis Valley Mennonite Landis Kate (Mrs.) 09/27 Brethren Home, Near Neffsville 76y Hanoverdale Landis Mrs. H. Reist 12/28 Lititz 63y Erb's Lausch Mrs. Richard 03/30 Rothsville 75y Middle Creek Leaman George H. 05/29 Near Landis Valley 77y Mellinger's Leeking Luther S. 01/18 Brockton, Mass. Unk Rothsville Lutheran Inf son of Mr & Mrs Monroe Leeking Lefevre Alice (Miss) 02/10 Neffsville 20y Landis Valley Leibic Kate (Mrs.) 06/08 Elizabeth Twp 83y Emanuel Lutheran-Brickerville Lenhart Mrs. Urias 08/19 Lititz 78y Emanuel Lutheran-Brickerville Light Walter 09/03 Lititz 4d Moravian Inf son of Walter B. & Frances Light Long Cyrus E. 04/03 Penn Twp 52y Penryn Lutheran Long John M. 03/13 Lititz 82y Zion's-Womelsdorf Long Mrs. D. A. 12/05 Lancaster General Hospital 41y Swamp church near Mertztown,Berks Co Longenecker Anna Mary (Mrs.) 01/11 Warwick Twp 74y Longenecker's Lupold Henry H. 10/13 East Petersburg 92y Mennonite Malschnee Ambrose 07/03 Reading 81y Lititz United Evangelical Markley Mrs. Henry E. 12/16 Lexington 23y Neffsville U. B. Martin Mrs. Tobias D. 01/28 Lititz 72y Kissel Hill Martin Tobias D. 05/29 Lititz 80y Kissel Hill McCloud George 01/04 Ephrata Twp 74y Brownstown U. E. McGallicher Frank 07/30 Lancaster General Hospital 57y Voganville Meily Mrs. Lemon 07/04 Lititz 57y United Evangelical Michael Henry M 01/05 Lititz 82y Longenecker's Miller Anna M. (Mrs.) 01/29 Eden 80y United Evangelical-Lititz Miller Elizabeth (Mrs.) 01/31 Lititz 85y Longenecker's Miller Harriet E. (Miss) 02/22 Clay Twp 63y Emanuel Lutheran-Brickerville Miller Susanna 07/05 Elizabeth Twp 68y Emanuel Lutheran Miller William B. 02/15 Elizabeth Twp 59y Kilmer's - Leb. Co. Moyer Nathan 05/18 Manheim 59y Hernley's Mummy Armin 09/15 Penn Twp 72y Penryn Lutheran Musselman Anna (Mrs.) 05/11 Neffsville 80y Neffsville U. B. Myer Elder John 04/26 Lititz 88y Middle Creek Myer Mrs. John 04/16 Lititz 83y Emanuel Lutheran-Brickerville Myers Elizabeth (Mrs.) 06/03 Brethren Home, Near Neffsville 87y Millersville Mennonite Myers Theodore R. 05/03 Lititz 13y Fairview-Manheim Neidermyer Mrs. Frederick 10/24 Lititz 86y Rothsville Lutheran Nies Mrs. Ira E. 04/23 Lititz 34y Longenecker's Nissly Catherine (Miss) 03/11 Millway 94y Middle Creek Otto Fannie (Miss) 12/10 Brethren Home, Near Neffsville 61y Woodward Hill-Lancaster Plasterer Mrs. Henry 11/29 Manheim 81y Fairview Rebman Fianna (Mrs.) 02/14 Lincoln 72y Emanuel Lutheran-Brickerville Reddig Mrs. James 12/15 County Hospital 70y Machpelah Reel Amos S. 06/04 Lititz 74y Honeybrook Ressler Morris K. 08/12 Lancaster 53y Rothsville Lutheran Rhote Mrs. J. C. 10/03 Lancaster 61y Longenecker's Ritter Barbara Ann (Mrs.) 09/05 Manheim 70y Fairview Roth Mary Ellen 06/23 Manheim Twp 57y East Petersburg Mennonite Royer Mrs. Elam 03/21 Ephrata 41y Brunnerville U. B. Royer Mrs. Jonathan 04/30 Rothsville 75y Lutheran Ruhl Elam 05/13 Manheim 2y Ruhl's Ruhl Mrs. Henry S. 01/24 Manheim 77y Gibbel's Sassaman Louisa de Turk(Mrs.) 11/07 United Zion Home-near Lititz 87y Reading Saylor Mrs. Benjamin 02/24 Manheim 61y Kauffman's Schultz Fianna (Mrs.) 02/18 Brunnerville 68y Brunnerville U. B. Sensenig Loretta O. 01/13 Near Rothsville 1y Hess' Dau of Isaac & Kate Sensenig Shaub Charles 05/09 Neffsville 3y Lutheran Shaub George 10/02 Neffsville 83y Neffsville Lutheran Sheaffer Walter Hackman 04/02 Brunnerville 6m Brunnerville U. B. Shelley Samuel 08/20 Manheim 70y Manheim Mennonite Shenk Paul F. 11/25 Warwick Twp 2m Erb's Son of Albert & Mary Shenk Shirk John R. 07/22 United Zion Home-near Lititz 70y not given Shreiner Frank L. 12/21 Near East Petersburg 67y East Petersburg Mennonite Shreiner Mary (Miss) 12/04 Brethren Home, Near Neffsville 84y Home cemetery Shreiner Sarah Ann (Mrs.) 05/30 Lititz 73y Graybill's Shue Aaron 06/20 Lancaster General Hospital 62y Machpelah of Lititz Simmers Charles Lloyd 04/22 Lititz 1y Brethren church-Bareville Son of Harrison Simmers Snyder Leo M. 10/12 East Petersburg 17y Mennonite Snyder Ruth 07/16 Penn Twp 5y Hess' Dau of Christian & Emma Snyder Spickler Mrs. Samuel 07/30 Manheim 75y Fairview Stark Jacob 11/09 Manheim 91y Neffsville-Brethren Stark Samuel 02/09 LItitz 77y Moravian Stauffer Mrs. Isaac 07/20 Manheim 35y Chickies Stauter Ida (Miss) 01/08 Akron 54y Akron Lutheran Steinmetz Samuel 02/10 Elizabeth Twp 55y Schaefferstown Stieff Mrs. Samuel 11/23 Brunnerville 54y United Zion-Rothsville Stoner Catherine Lee 06/17 Lancaster 73y Machpelah-Lititz Stormfeltz Henry S. 10/29 Lititz 64y Machpelah Strickler Mary (Mrs.) 01/18 Manheim 80y Erisman's Studenroth 04/11 Lititz 6-y Machpelah Age & first name illegible. Stump Eliza (Mrs.) 03/11 East Petersburg 87y East Petersburg Reformed Sturgis Chauncey 06/20 Lititz 2m Moravian Son of Chauncey & Beulah Sturgis Sturgis Francis Oliver 01/22 Brethren Home, Near Neffsville 83y Lancaster cemetery Swarr John R. 10/19 Lancaster General Hospital 26y Mennonite Trego Susan (Mrs.) 04/05 Ephrata 74y Bowman's Troutwine John Henry 05/08 Lititz 9m Erb's Son of John & Katie Troutwine Tshudy Mrs. Tobias J. 07/03 Lititz 64y Greenwood-Lancaster Ulrich Samuel M. 06/06 Elizabeth, N.J. 65y Lexington cemetery Wagner Mrs. Emory P. 02/10 Lititz 35y Moravian Wagner Susan (Mrs.) 09/17 Elizabeth Twp 88y St. John's Lutheran-Brickerville Warner John W. 01/21 Brethren Home, Near Neffsville 79y Reading Weachter Elsie Pauline 10/28 Halfville 1m Penryn Lutheran Inf child of Elmer Y. Weachter Weachter Samuel 04/20 Near Neffsville 66y Terre Hill Weaver Frank S. 03/11 Lancaster 30y Machpelah-Lititz Weaver Ruth Elizabeth 02/20 Penn Twp 1y Hernley's Dau of John & Mary Weaver Webber James Herbert 05/01 Warwick Twp 39y Machpelah Weidman Franklin 05/27 Lexington 72y Emanuel Lutheran-Brickerville Weikert Benj. L. 12/13 East Petersburg 77y Mennonite Weinhold Noah 10/22 Brethren Home, Near Neffsville 80y Mellinger's Wenger Joseph S. 10/14 Rothsville 55y Pike Mennonite Whitmyer Lydia (Mrs.) 11/09 Neffsville 85y Landis Valley Mennonite Widder I. D. 12/28 Murrell 68y Middle Creek Will Catherine (Mrs.) 05/31 Manheim 81y Fairview Wittel Barbara (Mrs.) 01/30 Penn Twp 89y Penryn Lutheran Wittel Mary (Miss) 09/12 Penn Twp 60y Penryn Lutheran Yerger Dorothy Grace 09/27 Lititz 10d Machpelah Inf dau of Justus & Theresa Yerger Yerger Martha W. 04/23 Lititz 36y Machpelah Young Irwin 09/27 Rothsville 1y United Zion-Rothsville Inf son of Clayton & Katie Young Zimmerman Mary (Mrs.) 11/03 Near Oregon 35y Hess' Zwally Erla 03/31 Akron 19y Akron Lutheran Zwally Mrs. Isaac 08/14 Lancaster General Hospital 82y Akron Lutheran