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LEECH, Elizabeth (Wissinger) (Mrs. C. W.)


SOURCE NOTATION:
    Johnstown Tribune, 7 Feb 1925, Contributed by Lynne Canterbury

 
Name:   LEECH, Elizabeth (Wissinger) (Mrs. C. W.)
Death Date:   6 Feb 1925
Age:   60
Newspaper:   Johnstown Tribune
Obituary Date:   7 Feb 1925
Contributed by:   Lynne Canterbury
Remarks:   FUNERAL OF MRS. C. W. LEECH

Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth (Wissinger) Leech, aged 60, wife of Calvin W. Leech, of 415 Locust Street, Conemaugh, who passed away yesterday afternoon at the Leech home with the Rev. John Hall, pastor of the Conemaugh Methodist Episcopal Church of which the deceased was a member, officiating. Interment will be made in Headrick's Cemetery.

The deceased was born at Mineral Point in 1865, the daughter of Ephram and Jane Lemon Wissinger. On 17 Nov 1893, she and Mr. Leech were married at Conemaugh by the Rev. A. S. Hunter, the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Surviving are her husband, who is a freight conductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and a son, Roy, at home. Four children preceded her to the grave. Mrs. Leech is also survived by two brothers: Robert Wissinger of Conemaugh, and Frank of Nome, Alaska; and three sisters: Mrs. Samuel Byers, Conemaugh; Mrs. Lewis Barkheimer, Moxham; and Mrs. H. L. Miller, 345 Strayer St., this city.

 

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