Verna Mary Rebecca Dietz1
F, #15584, b. 29 January 1899, d. 12 May 1982
Last Edited=1 Nov 2022
Verna Mary Rebecca Dietz was born on 29 January 1899, Rough and Ready, PA.1 She married William Harvey Semerod.2 Verna Mary Rebecca Dietz died on 12 May 1982, Good Samaritan Hospital, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, PA, at age 83.2,3
Newspaper obituary:
Mrs. Verna M. Semerod
FRACKVILLE -- The funeral for Mrs. Verna M. Deitz Semerod, 81, of Frackville, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Stephen R. Rothermel Funeral Home, Klingerstown RD1, by the Rev. Elden Ehrhart. Burial will be in the Salem Church Cemetery, Klingerstown RD1.
Friends may call in the funeral home today from 7 to 9 p.m.
Mrs. Semerod died Wednesday evening at 10 in the Good Samaritan Hospital, Pottsville, where she was a patient for six days. She had been in ill health for the past year.
Born in Klingerstown RD1, Jan. 29, 1899, she was a daughter of the late Elmer and Lillie Starr Dietz. Her husband, William H. Semerod, died in 1975.
Mrs. Semerod was a member of the Salem United Church of Christ, Klingerstown RD1.
She lived in Frackville for the past 23 years and previously lived in Mount Carmel.
She is survived by five children, Mrs. June Olson of Foster City, Calif., Wiliam H. of Pottsville, Mrs. Verna Button of Douglassville, Mrs. Lillie Deitrich of Aurora, Colo., and Jackie of Wilburton; 14 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Esther Hepler of Pitman RD1, Mrs. Louella Maurer of Miami, Fla., and Mrs. Florence Geist of Dornsife RD1 ; and three brothers, Herlin Dietz of Frackville, Ray Dietz of Klingerstown RD1, and Marlin Dietz of Harrisburg.
The Daily Item (Sunbury, Pennsylvania), 14 May 1982, Fri, Page 8.3
She was buried on 15 May 1982, at Salem United Church of Christ Cemetery, Rough and Ready, Schuylkill County, PA.3
Newspaper obituary:
Mrs. Verna M. Semerod
FRACKVILLE -- The funeral for Mrs. Verna M. Deitz Semerod, 81, of Frackville, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Stephen R. Rothermel Funeral Home, Klingerstown RD1, by the Rev. Elden Ehrhart. Burial will be in the Salem Church Cemetery, Klingerstown RD1.
Friends may call in the funeral home today from 7 to 9 p.m.
Mrs. Semerod died Wednesday evening at 10 in the Good Samaritan Hospital, Pottsville, where she was a patient for six days. She had been in ill health for the past year.
Born in Klingerstown RD1, Jan. 29, 1899, she was a daughter of the late Elmer and Lillie Starr Dietz. Her husband, William H. Semerod, died in 1975.
Mrs. Semerod was a member of the Salem United Church of Christ, Klingerstown RD1.
She lived in Frackville for the past 23 years and previously lived in Mount Carmel.
She is survived by five children, Mrs. June Olson of Foster City, Calif., Wiliam H. of Pottsville, Mrs. Verna Button of Douglassville, Mrs. Lillie Deitrich of Aurora, Colo., and Jackie of Wilburton; 14 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Esther Hepler of Pitman RD1, Mrs. Louella Maurer of Miami, Fla., and Mrs. Florence Geist of Dornsife RD1 ; and three brothers, Herlin Dietz of Frackville, Ray Dietz of Klingerstown RD1, and Marlin Dietz of Harrisburg.
The Daily Item (Sunbury, Pennsylvania), 14 May 1982, Fri, Page 8.3
She was buried on 15 May 1982, at Salem United Church of Christ Cemetery, Rough and Ready, Schuylkill County, PA.3
Children of Verna Mary Rebecca Dietz and William Harvey Semerod
- Florence June Semerod3
- Verna K. Semerod+3 b. c 1928, d. 29 Jun 2006
- Lillie Semerod3
Citations
- [S195] Phillip A. Rice and Jean A. Dellock, compiler, Herb's Church Record , Schuylkill County Pennsylvania Archives vol. I (Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1998), p. 53. Hereinafter cited as Herb's Church, Schuylkill County Pennsylvania Archives vol. I.
- [S251] George H. Schwalm and N. Daniel Schwalm, "All In The Family," Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, vol. 6, no. 4 (2000): p. 99.
- [S108] Newspaper Obituary, for Verna M. Semerod, The Daily Item (Sunbury, Pennsylvania), 14 May 1982, Fri, Page 8.