Smyrna times., 1923-05-23
DEATH RECORD OF THE WEEK
F. StOeckle, Tire Salesman,
Residing in Smyrna, Who Was OPP
Grated on Thursday, Died Sunday

eFdted on thursday, Dleu sunday
William Frederick Stoeckle, tire |
salesman, who resided on West Com |
merce Street, Smyrna, died at a. m.
Sunday, May goth, in the Howard |
Hospital, Philadelphia. He was taken
i'll on Wednesday, May 9th, and was
Immediately removed from his home
in Smyrna to the hospital in Philadel-
phia for an operation. The operation
though very serious, was successful,
and the physicians and surgeons at
tending, had every hope for his re-
cevery, on account of his good general
condition. He continued to improve
daily and showed no signs of collapse
until at the hour of a. m, Sunday,
he summoned the nurse to his bedside
stating that he felt i'll. The nurse in
turn, stepped out to call the physician
Immediately, but before the doctor
could reach his bedside which was but
a very few moments after Mr.StOeckle
had called the nurse, he had passed
away. 1t is a great shock to his fam
ily, relatives and friends. His funeral
will take place tomorrow, Thursday,
afternoon at 3 o'clock, at funeral par
lors of Kirk and Nice, Germantown
Avenue, Philadelphia. Mr.. StOeckle
was born and for a number of years
was a resident of Germantown, Phila-
delphia, being a member of the Trim
/ ity Luthern Church there. He grad
uated from the Northeast Manual
Training School and at one time con-
nected with the Philadelphia & Read
ing Railroad, and later with the Penn
sylvania Railroad, stationed at Buffalo
n. Y. He left Buffalo to connect with
the Goodyear Tire Company with
whom he has been several years
handling their Delaware and Mary
land Agencies About three years ago
he moved to Smyrna, residing at first
in the old Daniels property on Mair
street, and subsequently at the ole
residence of Charles P. Thornley, or
West Commerce street. He made
many friends not only in Smyrna bu
all over the Peninsula. He is surviv
ed by widow, who was Miss Clar;
Why Fowden, of Germantown; twt
sons, Leonard and Edward, and tw,
: daughters, Marjorie and Hilda Betty
q all of whom are under twelve years o
, age, and a sister, Mrs. Hilda B. Cum
f mings. Mrs. Stoeckle will make he
D home for the present with her fathe
n Mr.. Joseph J. Fowden at "a Ana
: Street, Germantown, Philadelphia.
n Mrs. Thomas n. Rawlins, SeafOrd
: Mrs. Alberta Wright Rawlins, 6
X years old, wife of former State Trea;
urer Thomas N. Rawlins, died at he
It home at SeafOrd Sunday after an il
ness of two weeks of a paralyt
!. stroke and nervous breakdown. Mr.
= Rawlins was president of the lOc;
:. w. C. T. L. and Women's Home Mi
=, sionary Society of st. Johns NJ.
:. Church. She was also prominent
; women's club work at SeafOrd and
:. the State. She was a daughter
the late Joseph and Sarah Wright,
= East New Market, Md. She was ma
"a "a ried April IA, 1896, and leaves besid
- her husband, two children, Miss Sara
: Wright Rawlins and Philip ]. I. RAY
- Inns, of Seaford; and one brother al
~ ~ sister, B. Washington Wright, Pre-
:. ton, Md, and rMs. Julia WoodcOc
e0 Salisbury, Md. Funeral services we
!; : held this Wednesday, morning at
- o'clock from her late home.
n Death of Mrs. Page Dame Adria
IS Mrs. Frank Adrian (nee Miss Pa
e. Dance of 1921 Madison Street, Bal
ay more, Md, daughter of Rev. Geor
r. w. Dame, a former rector of
r. Peters Church, Smyrna, died suddt
n ly in Baltimore on the 9Th inst. a
n was buried there on the 10th. NJ
Adrian spent her girlhoOd days
raj Smyrna and had many friends "
are sorry to learn of her death.
g was only three weeks ago that s
on and her little son were stopping
ne the Colonial Hotel in Smyrna, rene
eh ing old acquaintance. She had bt
ey' suffering from heart trouble and
TO was in one of her attacks she pas
or away suddenly. She leaves besi
AK her husband two little children,
les and girl.
an Mrs. E. S. Dwight Loses Her Mot
oct Mrs. Isabella Reaney Marshall, "
ck- ow of Edward C. Marshall, of Mar
ian all, Va, and mother of Mrs. Edw
wo S. Dwight, of this town died at
In o'clock this morning at her home
Virginia after a protracted illn,
She is survived by four sons and tn
daughters. She was married at /
AZ ersburg, Va, during the seige and
ter the war spent the remainder
me her life in Fauquier County, Virgil
She was a member of the EpiscC
L s 81.