ALBRIGHT, Mae 1881-1975

ALBRIGHT, DELP

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Date: 4/27/2017 at 15:53:10

Mae Albright, 93, Rites At Ivester

Miss Mae Albright, 93, who was born and lived in the Ivester neighborhood many years, died Tuesday, February 11, in the Bridgewater, Virginia, Home for the Aged, where she had resided since 1971. Services were held Thursday at the Lindsey-Bridgewater Funeral Chapel in Bridgewater, Va. and at 2 p.m. Friday in the Ivester Church of the Brethren near Eldora.

Rev. Alan Dieffaber officiated at the service. Mrs. Dohn Krushchwitz was organist. Pallbearers were Lloyd Draper, Victor Reist, Gilbert Hogancamp, Wayne Albright, Dohn and Forrest Kruschwitz. Burial was in the Sheller cemetery.

She was born in Grundy county, Iowa, the daughter of John and Barbara Delp Albright, and was reared in the community of her birth. She attended Bridgewater college in Bridgewater, Va. and had formerly lived in Rockingham county from 1910 to 1914. Miss Albright returned to Grundy county in 1914. She had made her home in the midwest for many years prior to moving to Bridgewater in 1968 to make her home with Mr. and Mrs. William Albright. She was a member of the Mt. Bethel Church of the Brethren in Rockingham county and a former member of the Ivester Church of the Brethren. She was the last surviving member of her family and is survived by nieces and nephews. Ten brothers and sisters preceded her in death.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 20 February 1975, pg 13

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Obituary of Mae Albright

Mae Albright was born October 19, 1881, to Jacob and Barbara Delp Albright of Grundy county, Iowa. She was the youngest of eleven children and the last survivor of her immediate family. She died in Bridgewater, Va., on February 11, 1975, in her ninety-fourth year.

As a young woman, she attended schools in Grundy county and pursued further studies at Bethany Bible School in Chicago, Ill., and at Bridgewater College in Virginia. While attending these schools, she engaged in home mission work for the Church of the Brethren with the Chinese Community in Chicago and the Mount Bethel Congregation of the Church of the Brethren in Virginia. Her interest in the missions program of the church continued throughout her life and was expressed through a period of special service in St. Joseph, Mo., and in a life-long philanthropic association with such institutions as Prentiss Institute, McPherson College, Bethany Theological Seminary, Bethany Hospital, the Heifer Project, and the General Brotherhood Board at various congregations of the Church of the Brethren in which she held membership.

In addition to her institutional philanthropies, she was the benefactress of numerous individuals for whom she made higher education a possibility.

After the period of formal education and service to the church, Mae returned to Grundy county, Iowa, where she made her home until 1947 when she moved to McPherson, Kansas. In 1968 she returned to Bridgewater, Va., and resided there until her death.

She is survived by numerous nieces and nephews, with many of whom she shared a special relationship of continuous family interest, service, and care throughout three generations. The particular maternal relationship which she maintained with the four children of her brother Noah culminated in their formal adoption, and they survive as her children. They are William P. Albright of Bridgewater, Va., Patricia Messamer of Glendale, Ariz., Avis Speaker of Phoenix, Ariz., and Ardys Sutphin of Elizabethtown, Pa.

Funeral services were held in Bridgewater, Va., where she was a member of the Mount Bethel Church of the Brethren and in Ivester Church of the Brethren, Grundy Center, Iowa, where she had been a member for most of her adult life. Burial was in Sheller Cemetery.

--Hardin County Index (Eldora, Iowa), 21 February 1975, pg 14