McCune, Mary [Duncan]: 2/20/1934

Funeral Rites for Mrs. Mary McCune Friday

Widow of Samuel B. McCune, Member of Old Family Dies Tuesday Afternoon

Ill for SeveralYears

Mrs. Mary (Duncan) McUne, died at her home, 126 North Prince street, at 2:45 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. She was the widow of Samuel Brady McCune, who died over five eyars ago. Mrs. McCune was a daughter of the later Alexander and Euphemia Duncan, and was born and reared at the old Duncan homestead near Shippensburg. She had been in failing health for the last three years. She was the last member of her immediate family.

Mrs. McCune was a member of the Presbyterian church from childhood, and as long as her health premitted was actively interested in her church ans its affiliated organizations, and devoted to her family and friends. She attended the old Normal School and Wilson College..

She is survived by three daughters and one son, Mrs. Effie McCune Weakley, at home; Mrs. Walter C. Nickles, Montgomery avenue , Shippensburg; Mrs. Jackson G. Rutherford, Fort Scott, Kansas; W. Alexander McCune, Harrisburg; also these grandchildren: Miss Mary Weakley, a member of the school faculty of Salem, N.J.; Alexander McCune, Jr., Joseph McCune, Harris burg; Jackson G. Rutherford, Jr., Fort Scott, and William Nickles III, of Shippensburg.

The funeral will be held at the residence, 126 N. Prince street, this Friday morning at 11 o'clock. Rev. WIlliam H. Galbreath, pastor of the local Presbyterian church, will officiate at teh service. Burial will be made in the family plot in Spring Hill cemetery.

Friends and relatives are invited to the funeral without further notice.1

  • 1. News-Chronicle (Shippensburg), 2/23/1934[.fn]