Mabel E. Geyer, 97, formerly of 68 S. Second St. and local Western Union Manager for nearly 50 years, died at 12:45 a.m. Nov. 17, 1982, in Menno-Haven Nursing Home.
Miss Geyer was appointed manager of the Chambersburg Western Union office in 1908 and continued in the capacity through the two World Wars. She often dispatched messengers on bicycles and trolley cars to relay information about servicemen who were killed or injured overseas. She retired in 1955.
Born March 26, 1885 in Horse Valley, she was the daughter of the late George W. and Margaret Jane Neusbaum Geyer.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church and Daughters of the American Revolution.
Last of her immediate family, she is survived by two Nieces: Mary Geyer Rines, 537 Guilford Ave., and Averil Geyer Brown, 1347 Scotland Ave., and two nephews: Eugene M. Geyer, Hagerstown, Md., and Donald H. Geyer, Philadelphia.
Services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in John O. Park funeral Home with the Rev. Stephen W. Hoffman officiating. Burial will be in Norland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home one hour before services.
Miss Geyer was appointed manager of the Chambersburg Western Union office in 1908 and continued in the capacity through the two World Wars. She often dispatched messengers on bicycles and trolley cars to relay information about servicemen who were killed or injured overseas. She retired in 1955.
Born March 26, 1885 in Horse Valley, she was the daughter of the late George W. and Margaret Jane Neusbaum Geyer.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church and Daughters of the American Revolution.
Last of her immediate family, she is survived by two Nieces: Mary Geyer Rines, 537 Guilford Ave., and Averil Geyer Brown, 1347 Scotland Ave., and two nephews: Eugene M. Geyer, Hagerstown, Md., and Donald H. Geyer, Philadelphia.
Services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in John O. Park funeral Home with the Rev. Stephen W. Hoffman officiating. Burial will be in Norland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home one hour before services.
Mabel E. Geyer, 97, formerly of 68 S. Second St. and local Western Union Manager for nearly 50 years, died at 12:45 a.m. Nov. 17, 1982, in Menno-Haven Nursing Home.
Miss Geyer was appointed manager of the Chambersburg Western Union office in 1908 and continued in the capacity through the two World Wars. She often dispatched messengers on bicycles and trolley cars to relay information about servicemen who were killed or injured overseas. She retired in 1955.
Born March 26, 1885 in Horse Valley, she was the daughter of the late George W. and Margaret Jane Neusbaum Geyer.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church and Daughters of the American Revolution.
Last of her immediate family, she is survived by two Nieces: Mary Geyer Rines, 537 Guilford Ave., and Averil Geyer Brown, 1347 Scotland Ave., and two nephews: Eugene M. Geyer, Hagerstown, Md., and Donald H. Geyer, Philadelphia.
Services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in John O. Park funeral Home with the Rev. Stephen W. Hoffman officiating. Burial will be in Norland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home one hour before services.
Miss Geyer was appointed manager of the Chambersburg Western Union office in 1908 and continued in the capacity through the two World Wars. She often dispatched messengers on bicycles and trolley cars to relay information about servicemen who were killed or injured overseas. She retired in 1955.
Born March 26, 1885 in Horse Valley, she was the daughter of the late George W. and Margaret Jane Neusbaum Geyer.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church and Daughters of the American Revolution.
Last of her immediate family, she is survived by two Nieces: Mary Geyer Rines, 537 Guilford Ave., and Averil Geyer Brown, 1347 Scotland Ave., and two nephews: Eugene M. Geyer, Hagerstown, Md., and Donald H. Geyer, Philadelphia.
Services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in John O. Park funeral Home with the Rev. Stephen W. Hoffman officiating. Burial will be in Norland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home one hour before services.
