MRS. E. L. KREIDER DIES AT HOME IN ANNVILLE

Mrs. Emma Louisa Kreider, one of Annville's oldest and most highly respected citizens, passed away on the morning of Thanksgiving Day at her home, 244 East Main Street, where she lived during the entire 67 years of her married life. She had but one other home during her entire career of more than 88 years. It was the substantial farm house, still standing in North Annville township between Harpers and Bellegrove, where she was born, June 12, 1846, the only child of George A. and Elizabeth (Heilman) Miller, and where she resided until her marriage in 1867 to Andrew Kreider, when she started housekeeping with her husband in the home where she passed away. She was ill for three months, suffering from a complication of ailments, peculiar to old age. Her husband preceded her in death eighteen years.

Mr. Kreider was one of the most prominent citizens of Annvllle, and Mrs. Kreider shared his popularity and wide acquaintanceship. She was a woman with many fine traits of heart and minds which endeared her to those in the social circles she frequented and in the Lutheran church of which she was a member for many years, having joined that religious organization at the Bellegrove church which she attended in her childhood. She was a good wife and devoted mother and possessed general characteristics and personal charm which, make her demise a real loss in a wide realm outside of her Immediate family circle. In her young girlhood she was a student at Linden Hall Seminary, Lititz, Lancaster county.,/p>

She leaves four children, Andrew R. Kreider, of 226 Cumberland St., Lebanon, ;and Miss Sallie, Edwin and Miss Anna E., at home. There are four grandsons, two great grandsons, and a great great grandchild.

Lebanon Semi Weekly News - Monday, December 3, 1934