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Obituary
- Mrs. Blanche Clark Syndestricker, widow of Thomas A. Syndenstricker, died
at her home in Lewisburg on Tuesday, April 11, 1944. The immediate cause of
her death was a heart attack. Had she lived until August 11, next, she
would have entered her 79th year. She was born and reared near
Hillsboro, Pocahontas County, and was a daughter of the late Alvin and Mary
Agnes Beard Clark. She was educated at the Hillsboro Academy and the
old L. F. l. I. now Greenbrier College in Lewisburg. On August
12, 1891, she was united in marriage to Thomas A. Sydenstricker, of
Greenbrier County. They lived at her old home in Pocahontas county
until twenty-five years ago, when the moved to Lewisburg. her husband
died in 1932. She is survived by two daughters - Ann, wife of George
E. Fuller who lives in Washington, D.C. and Polly, wife of Claude E.
McLaughlin of Lewisburg - and one grandson, George E. Fuller, Jr. who is a
dentist and is connected with the U. S. Army medical corps in St. Louis Mo.
Also, she is survived by her sister, Mrs. Andrew Price of Marlinton.
Funeral services were held at her home on Thursday afternoon, conducted by
her pastor, Rev. Lloyd McF. Courtney and burial was beside the grave of her
husband in Rosewood cemetery. Mrs. Sydenstricker had been a lifelong
member of the Presbyterian church, and was a kindly hospitable, home loving
woman. -- Greenbrier Independent. |
