Mrs. Charles Kress Recently Injured, Dies At Hospital
Deceased was Daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Jacob Fronheiser, Funeral Saturday
Mrs. Justina Kress, widow of Charles Frederick Kress, who fell on May 28 at the Kress homestead, Locust street and Park place, and fractured her right hip, died last night at 10:50 o’clock at Mercy Hospital, where she had been a patient since the day after the accident. Mrs. Kress was in her 79th year. Soon after being admitted to the hospital Mrs. Kress was placed in a wheel chair, but her heart weakened a short time later.
The funeral services will be held at the Jacob F. Kress residence on Saturday afternoon and will be in charge of the Rev. Dr. E. A. Tappert, pastor of Zion’s German Lutheran Church, and the Rev. Henry W. Snyder, pastor of the First Lutheran Church. Private burial will be made in the family plot in Grandview Cemetery. The pallbearers will be Albert Krebs, jr., Roy Shumaker, James E. Kress, Frederick W. Kress, Dr. Harry H. Sanderson, George Stammler, Karl Fronheiser, and Edson Gardner, all relatives of the deceased.
The deceased was born at the Fronheiser homestead on the present location of the Gautier plant of the Cambria Steel Company on October 31, 1943, being a daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Meyer) Fronheiser. Her father, who was a pioneer baker of this place, immigrated [sic] from Germany to America in 1832 and learned the baking trade in Baltimore. A short time later he came to Johnstown and worked in Pershing’s bakery for about two years before embarking in business for himself. His death occurred here in 1894. His wife died at the Fronheiser home, then on Locust street, near Franklin, in May, 1885. Nine children were born to Mr. And Mrs. Fronheiser – Elizabeth, who died at the age of 14 years; George, who died at the age of 16 years; Jacob, who died in infancy; Justina; Amelia, widow of Fred Kress; James J., deceased, who was a well-known chemist; Edward H., who expired in March, 1905; Mary, widow of Fred Stammler, and Emma, an infant who died in 1862.
Miss Justina Fronheiser and Charles F. Kress, son of the Rev. Karl Kress, one of the first pastors of Zion’s Lutheran congregation, were married in Johnstown on March 20, 1866, by the Rev. Dr. Karl Taubner, who was then the pastor of Zion’s Church. Five children were born to Mr. And Mrs. Kress, two of whom survive their mother. They are Jacob Fronheiser Kress of 610 Luzerne street, and Carl Frederick Kress, of 527 Hill avenue, Wilkinsburg. Dr. Edward H. Kress, the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Kress, died in Johnstown in 1900, and George Ludwig Kress, the youngest of the children, died at the Memorial Hospital on December 8, 1920. Miss Marie Kress, the only daughter, expired at the Kress home in 1906. Besides hers sons and two sisters Mrs. Kress is survived by 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, the latter being Betty and Edson Gardner, jr. of Coleman avenue. Charles Frederick Kress, husband of the deceased, passed away here on February 17, 1907. |
