Susan Gemberling Romig
The Selinsgrove Times, Thursday June 30, 1938
OBITUARY
Mrs. I. Milton Romig
Died On Saturday
Devoted Church Worker Was
Stricken at Reunion in
Watsontown
Services were conducted yesterday afternoon for Mrs. I. Milton Romig, 71 who died at 1:20 p.m. Saturday. The deceased woman was stricken totally with a heart attack while attending the Jarrett reunion in Watsontown.
The late Mrs. Romig was born Susan Gemberling, February 11, 1867. She was the daughter of Sephares and Rosa Pickard Gemberling of Penn Township. The deceased woman was married to I. Milton Romig of South High Street who survives. Three children were born to their union died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Romig resided in Pittsburg several years following their marriage on September 20, 1899, at the Gemberling homestead. Mr. Romig was engaged in bridge construction work. They resided in Selinsgrove continuously since 1907.
Other surviviors are four sisters, Mrs. Irvin Hummel of Plymouth, Michigan; Mrs. William Fisher of Milton; Mrs. Eva K. Marburger and Miss Minnie Gemberling, of South Water Street Selinsgrove, and two brothers, A. Ira Gemberling, of Arbor Lawn and Lewis f. Gemberling, also of South Water Street.
The late Mrs. Romig was a member of St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, and active in affairs of the church and Sunday school. For more than 50 years she taught Sunday school classes resigning only last year as an instructor in the Reformed Sunday school. She was a charter member of the Women's Missionary Society and thank offering secretary to that society since it's inception. She was also an active member of the Ladies Aid Society. Only days before her death she was elected president of the Gemberling clan at the annual family reunion.
Mrs. Romig was also a member of the Thursday Club, Women's auxillary of Susquehanna University, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She lived an exemplanary life and was a woman of exceptionally fine character.
Funeral services were conducted from her late home on South High Street at 2 p.m. yesterday. Rev. Earl G. Kline pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church officated at the services. Interment was in Union Cemetery.
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