1 Ammon Oscar Swartz on: Children: - Robert George Swartz
- Wendell D. Swartz
Siblings: - Susan Rex
- Violetta Rex
- Emma Rex
- Martha J. E. Rex
- George Milton Rex
- Jane Amanda Rex
| Born: Baptism: Place: Sponsors: Died: Burial: Notes: Allentown Morning Call, Allentown, Pa., Monday, July 11, 1938, Page 5
Widow of Lehighton Undertaker Dies, Aged 79
Elmira M. (Rex) Swartz, widow of A. Oscar Swartz, former Lehighton underta ker, died yesterday in the Palmerton hospital, the result of a stoke suffe red Sunday, July 3, in her home on E. 2nd St., Lehighton. She was 79 yea rs of age.
Mrs. Swartz was born June 21, 1859, a daughter of the late Daniel and Ma ry Rex in Heidelberg, Lehigh County. She spent the great part of her li fe in Lehighton, where she held membership in Bethany E. C. Church.
Surviving are two sons, Wendell D. Swartz, present undertaker in Lehighto n, and Robert G. of Dania, Fla., two grandchildren also survive. Her husba nd preceded her in death 21 years ago.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Swartz memo rial home, Lehighton, the Rev. H.H. Scanlin officiating. Interment in t he Lehighton cemetery. |