ELIZABETH HICKS CALLED BY DEATH
One of County's Oldest Ex-Teachers and Enthusiastic Religious Workers Passes After Short Illness.
Miss Elizabeth Hicks, former public school teacher, the eldest Sunday school teacher in Blair county and famed for her piety and unostentatious benevolences and activities in all good works, died at 7 o'clock this morning at the home of her niece, Mrs. George R. McFarlane, 1017 Lexington Avenue. Death was caused by pneumonia, after an illness of but three days' duration.
Miss Hicks was born in Bedford, March 13, 1838, the daughter of Daniel and Mary Whitney Hicks of English-Welsh parents and when a child, residing first in Duncansville and later in Hollidaysburg. In her girlhood, Miss Hicks was a student at Bucknell university, at Lewisburg, attending sessions there after completing the meager course then provided in the public schools.
Early in life, Miss Hicks taught school, being engaged in several parts of the county, notably at Tipton and at Leamersville. Many persons, tutored under her wise guidance, now men and women of age, vividly recall the pleasant associations with her. All her life she was a student, was well informed, and was a fluent speaker and an entertaining conversationalist.
Affiliating herself with the Baptist church when a child, Miss Hicks was throughout her entire life greatly interested in the work of the church and at the age of 10 became a teacher in Sunday school, among the very first organized in the county. She continued to teach until death cut her down, having a career as a teacher for a period of seventy years, uninterrupted.
Miss Hicks was affiliated with the First Baptist church in Hollidaysburg and it was in that congregation that she worked so diligently for so many years. She seldom missed services and although age bore rather heavily upon her, nothing kept her away. As late as Monday of this week, she had gone to Hollidaysburg to engage in some service for the church in which she had long worked and which she loved so much.
Of a large family of children born to her parents, Miss Hicks was the eldest. But one survives her, a sister, Mrs. Sarah Thomas of Ottawa, Kan. During the past several years, Miss Hicks made her home with her neice, Mrs. McFarlane.
Altoona Mirror: Friday 4.11/1924, p. 23.
Funeral Services for the late Miss Elizabeth Hicks will be conducted from the home of her niece, Mrs. George R. McFarlane of 1017 Lexington Avenue, at 2.20 o'clock Monday afternoon. Private interment will be made in Rose Hill cemetery. The body may be viewed at the home from 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon until the hour of the funeral.
Altoona Mirror: Saturday, 4/12/1924, p. 23
One of County's Oldest Ex-Teachers and Enthusiastic Religious Workers Passes After Short Illness.
Miss Elizabeth Hicks, former public school teacher, the eldest Sunday school teacher in Blair county and famed for her piety and unostentatious benevolences and activities in all good works, died at 7 o'clock this morning at the home of her niece, Mrs. George R. McFarlane, 1017 Lexington Avenue. Death was caused by pneumonia, after an illness of but three days' duration.
Miss Hicks was born in Bedford, March 13, 1838, the daughter of Daniel and Mary Whitney Hicks of English-Welsh parents and when a child, residing first in Duncansville and later in Hollidaysburg. In her girlhood, Miss Hicks was a student at Bucknell university, at Lewisburg, attending sessions there after completing the meager course then provided in the public schools.
Early in life, Miss Hicks taught school, being engaged in several parts of the county, notably at Tipton and at Leamersville. Many persons, tutored under her wise guidance, now men and women of age, vividly recall the pleasant associations with her. All her life she was a student, was well informed, and was a fluent speaker and an entertaining conversationalist.
Affiliating herself with the Baptist church when a child, Miss Hicks was throughout her entire life greatly interested in the work of the church and at the age of 10 became a teacher in Sunday school, among the very first organized in the county. She continued to teach until death cut her down, having a career as a teacher for a period of seventy years, uninterrupted.
Miss Hicks was affiliated with the First Baptist church in Hollidaysburg and it was in that congregation that she worked so diligently for so many years. She seldom missed services and although age bore rather heavily upon her, nothing kept her away. As late as Monday of this week, she had gone to Hollidaysburg to engage in some service for the church in which she had long worked and which she loved so much.
Of a large family of children born to her parents, Miss Hicks was the eldest. But one survives her, a sister, Mrs. Sarah Thomas of Ottawa, Kan. During the past several years, Miss Hicks made her home with her neice, Mrs. McFarlane.
Altoona Mirror: Friday 4.11/1924, p. 23.
Funeral Services for the late Miss Elizabeth Hicks will be conducted from the home of her niece, Mrs. George R. McFarlane of 1017 Lexington Avenue, at 2.20 o'clock Monday afternoon. Private interment will be made in Rose Hill cemetery. The body may be viewed at the home from 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon until the hour of the funeral.
Altoona Mirror: Saturday, 4/12/1924, p. 23
ELIZABETH HICKS CALLED BY DEATH
One of County's Oldest Ex-Teachers and Enthusiastic Religious Workers Passes After Short Illness.
Miss Elizabeth Hicks, former public school teacher, the eldest Sunday school teacher in Blair county and famed for her piety and unostentatious benevolences and activities in all good works, died at 7 o'clock this morning at the home of her niece, Mrs. George R. McFarlane, 1017 Lexington Avenue. Death was caused by pneumonia, after an illness of but three days' duration.
Miss Hicks was born in Bedford, March 13, 1838, the daughter of Daniel and Mary Whitney Hicks of English-Welsh parents and when a child, residing first in Duncansville and later in Hollidaysburg. In her girlhood, Miss Hicks was a student at Bucknell university, at Lewisburg, attending sessions there after completing the meager course then provided in the public schools.
Early in life, Miss Hicks taught school, being engaged in several parts of the county, notably at Tipton and at Leamersville. Many persons, tutored under her wise guidance, now men and women of age, vividly recall the pleasant associations with her. All her life she was a student, was well informed, and was a fluent speaker and an entertaining conversationalist.
Affiliating herself with the Baptist church when a child, Miss Hicks was throughout her entire life greatly interested in the work of the church and at the age of 10 became a teacher in Sunday school, among the very first organized in the county. She continued to teach until death cut her down, having a career as a teacher for a period of seventy years, uninterrupted.
Miss Hicks was affiliated with the First Baptist church in Hollidaysburg and it was in that congregation that she worked so diligently for so many years. She seldom missed services and although age bore rather heavily upon her, nothing kept her away. As late as Monday of this week, she had gone to Hollidaysburg to engage in some service for the church in which she had long worked and which she loved so much.
Of a large family of children born to her parents, Miss Hicks was the eldest. But one survives her, a sister, Mrs. Sarah Thomas of Ottawa, Kan. During the past several years, Miss Hicks made her home with her neice, Mrs. McFarlane.
Altoona Mirror: Friday 4.11/1924, p. 23.
Funeral Services for the late Miss Elizabeth Hicks will be conducted from the home of her niece, Mrs. George R. McFarlane of 1017 Lexington Avenue, at 2.20 o'clock Monday afternoon. Private interment will be made in Rose Hill cemetery. The body may be viewed at the home from 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon until the hour of the funeral.
Altoona Mirror: Saturday, 4/12/1924, p. 23
One of County's Oldest Ex-Teachers and Enthusiastic Religious Workers Passes After Short Illness.
Miss Elizabeth Hicks, former public school teacher, the eldest Sunday school teacher in Blair county and famed for her piety and unostentatious benevolences and activities in all good works, died at 7 o'clock this morning at the home of her niece, Mrs. George R. McFarlane, 1017 Lexington Avenue. Death was caused by pneumonia, after an illness of but three days' duration.
Miss Hicks was born in Bedford, March 13, 1838, the daughter of Daniel and Mary Whitney Hicks of English-Welsh parents and when a child, residing first in Duncansville and later in Hollidaysburg. In her girlhood, Miss Hicks was a student at Bucknell university, at Lewisburg, attending sessions there after completing the meager course then provided in the public schools.
Early in life, Miss Hicks taught school, being engaged in several parts of the county, notably at Tipton and at Leamersville. Many persons, tutored under her wise guidance, now men and women of age, vividly recall the pleasant associations with her. All her life she was a student, was well informed, and was a fluent speaker and an entertaining conversationalist.
Affiliating herself with the Baptist church when a child, Miss Hicks was throughout her entire life greatly interested in the work of the church and at the age of 10 became a teacher in Sunday school, among the very first organized in the county. She continued to teach until death cut her down, having a career as a teacher for a period of seventy years, uninterrupted.
Miss Hicks was affiliated with the First Baptist church in Hollidaysburg and it was in that congregation that she worked so diligently for so many years. She seldom missed services and although age bore rather heavily upon her, nothing kept her away. As late as Monday of this week, she had gone to Hollidaysburg to engage in some service for the church in which she had long worked and which she loved so much.
Of a large family of children born to her parents, Miss Hicks was the eldest. But one survives her, a sister, Mrs. Sarah Thomas of Ottawa, Kan. During the past several years, Miss Hicks made her home with her neice, Mrs. McFarlane.
Altoona Mirror: Friday 4.11/1924, p. 23.
Funeral Services for the late Miss Elizabeth Hicks will be conducted from the home of her niece, Mrs. George R. McFarlane of 1017 Lexington Avenue, at 2.20 o'clock Monday afternoon. Private interment will be made in Rose Hill cemetery. The body may be viewed at the home from 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon until the hour of the funeral.
Altoona Mirror: Saturday, 4/12/1924, p. 23
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