WHETZEL, MRS. BLANCHE L., 94, Adah, a resident of Brownsville since 1910, died Sept. 24, 1975, in the Golden Age Nursing Home in Brownsville.

She was born July 14, 1882 in Tippecanoe.

Survivors include five sons, AVERILL, KENNETH, RALPH, DONALD, and LeROY; four daughters, MRS. MILDRED DAVIS, MRS. RUTH WHEELER, MRS. THELMA TAYLOR, MRS. LOUELLA BERISH; and a sister, MRS. RALPH RICHARDS.

Burial in Bridgeport Cemetery under the direction of the J.W. Kisinger Funeral Home.

(Source: Brownsville Telegraph newspaper archives)
∼Newspaper Obit.: Whetzel Blanche L.-Age 94 years of Adah, Pa. and a resident of Brownsville since 1919, died Friday September 24, 1976 at 9:58 pm in the Golden Age Nursing Home, Brownsville, Pa. She was born July 14, 1882 in Tippecanoe, Pa surviving are five sons. Averill of New Salem, Rd. 1, Kenneth of Adah, Pa., Ralph of Monongahela, PA., Donald of East Millsboro, Pa. and Leroy of Perryopolis, Pa.; four daughters, Mrs. Mildred Davis of Masontown, Pa., Mrs. Ruth Wheeler of Willowick, Ohio. Mrs. Thelma Taylor of Warren, Mass. and Mrs. Louella Berish of Uniontown, Rd. 1; thirty-one grandchildren, three great grandchildren, a sister Mrs. Ralph Richards of Chula Vista, Calif. Her husband, Andrew J. died in 1952 Friends will be received in the J W. Kisinger funeral home. 515 Front St., Brownsville until 1 pm the hour of service with Rev. Norman hunt officiating. Burial in Bridgeport Cemetery, Brownsville, Pa.
(Note: Their were more then 3 great grand children born at the time of her death)
Notes from Family Members:
Lilly was called Blanche by Family members and Friends
My father Raymond Whetzel remembers her being a very intelligent Woman, she liked to read and that she took Andy's death very hard. ( I have several memories of visiting her with my father as a young child).
Aunt Judy Whetzel remembers visiting her with her husband Pete at the Nursing Home and Blanche would tell everyone now is the time to break out, and she remembers that Blanche's Funeral was very large with lots of Family and Friends.