The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-19


May IT at her home, AIT North Lo-
cuts street, aged 90.
She is survived by two nieces,
Mrs. Margaret Ridley and Miss En-
ma Dougan.
Anna Mae Reeder, wife of John
S. Reeder, Boonsboro, died on May
Is at her home, after an illness of
81 months, aged IA years.
She was daughter of Cornelius
and Charlotte Houpt Mertz and was
a member of the Church of God.
Besides her husband, she is sur
vived by: two daughters, Mrs. Guy
Younkins, Middletown, and Mrs.
Guy Palmer, Boonsboro; three sons,
Elmer, Hagerstown, and Emory and
Stanley, Boonsboro; sister, Mrs.
Edgar lines, Hagerstown; half
brother, Jonathan Mertz, Boons-
boro, and fourteen grandchildren
and II great grandchildren.
Edwin Augusta Kenner, promin-
inent Williamsport citizen and we'll
known business man in Hagerstown,
died on May Is of a heart attack.
He was 58-years-old
Mr.. Kenner had for 80 years been
a pharmacist in Washington, D. c.,
but recently had come to HagerS-
town and was associated with the
wholesale distributors, Beverage
Sales Company, as its president.
A member of the HagerstoWn
Chamber of Commerce, he was also
a charter member of the Williams
port Lions Club, Fire Department,
and of the Madeira Lodge No. 140.
In Hagerstown he belonged to the
Tall Cedars No. 95, The Elks, Moose
Club, No. 3O9, Eagles Club No. 694,
and the Red Men.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Dorothy
Kenner, he is survived by his moth
er. Mrs. Ada Kenner of Washing
ton, D. c.; two brothers, General
A w. Kenner, Washington, and
Rodham w. Kenner, also of Wash
ington, D. c.; and two sisters, Mrs.
Alstoddard, Chicago, and Mrs. E. B.
Parkson, Frederick.
Mrs. Rachel V. RespO, 251 South
\ Prospect street, died at the Uni
versity Hospital, Baltimore, on May
IA.
Born in Hagerstown March 25,
1923, she was the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd A. Gearhart, Sr.
She graduated from the Smiths
burg High School and the Wash
ington County Hospital Nursing
School with the class of 1914, after
which she took a post graduate
course in Philadelphia Before her
illness she was supervisor of the
operating-room at the Washington
County Hospital She was a mem
Der of the Evangelical United Breth-
rem Church, Chewsville.
Surviving, besides her husband,
Frank Respo, and her parents, are:
four sisters, Lorraine, Betty, Louella
and Phyllis, all at home, and two
brothers, Floyd, Jr., Waynesboro,
Pa, and Lloyd, U. S. Navy, San
Francisco, Calf.
The Rev. John William OFT, D. D.,
pastor emeritus of st. Marks Lu-
theran Church, Hagerstown, died on
!. May IA at the Garlock Conyalescent
Home.
He was born in Rocky Ridge,
Maryland, October 20, 1871, the son
of John T. and Emma F. Miller OFT.
After receiving his bachelor of arts
degree from Gettysburg College in
1897, he entered the Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Gettys-
burg, Pa. graduating in the class of
1900 with bachelor of divinity de-
gree.
Upon the reception of call to
Trinity Lutheran Church, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, he was ordained
as a minister of the gospel on Octo-
Der 7, 1900 in Zion Lutheran Church,
North Manchester On September
10, 1906 he married Miss Leoma
O'dell Weaver of Littlestown, Pa,
and of that union one son, Weaver
Lyman, was born.
In February 1907 st. Marks Luz
theran Church, Hagerstown extend
ed him call and he entered upon
his duties as pastor in March, 1907.
During more than thirty years
that DR.. OFT served as pastor of the
congregation there was a steady
growth in the congregations mem
bership, the Sundays school, the
spiritual life of the people and in
terest in the greater work of the
church in missionary activity.