Ella Stauffer (Lane)

• Death Notes
  • obituary for ELLA STAUFFER:
    Teh following notice from the Greensburg paper under date of April 18, 1935
    may be of interest to near relatives:  "Funeral services for Mrs. Ella
    Stauffer Lane, wife of City councilman W. Scott Lane, of Greensburg, who
    died yesterday at the age of 72, will be held from the Lane home, 502 North
    Maple Avenue, at 2:30 o'clock, Monday afternoon.  Teh deseased was a
    daughter of the late Abraham K. and Katherine Slonecker Stauffer.  For many
    years the Stauffers lived on a farm near Scottdale before moving here, where
    Mrs. Lane was born.  Mr. and Mrs. Lane were residents of Greensburg for more
    than 40 years and in June of this year would have celebrated their 50th
    wedding anniversary.  Mrs. Lane received her early education in the Mount
    Pleasant Institute, and the Pennsylvania College for Women.  She was a
    member of the Methodist Espiscopal church and took an active interest in the
    church.  For 25 years she was treasurer of the Women's Foreign Missionary
    Society of the church.  Besides her husband she is survived by a sister,
    Mrs. Hugh R. Francis, of Greensburg, formerly of Scottdale, and two brothers
    Geo. W. Stauffer, of Connellsville, and Jay C. Stauffer, of East
    McKeesport." (Slonaker 237.)