Myrtle L. Brown
(1904-1954)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Franklin Mac Morris Beacher

Myrtle L. Brown 1 2 3

  • Born: 27 Mar 1904, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 3
  • Marriage (1): Franklin Mac Morris Beacher
  • Died: 10 Jan 1954, Abington Twp., Montgomery, PA at age 49 1 3
  • Buried: 14 Jan 1954, Drexel Hill: Arlington Cemetery, Delaware, PA 3

   FamilySearch ID: LXS8-BTQ.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence: 233 Poplar St., Sharon Hill, Pa. on 14 Feb 1930 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. 2

2. Cause of Death: Myrtle died at Abington Hospital due to a fractured skull from two car collision, 10 Jan 1954, Abington, Montgomery, PA. 3

3. Obituary: Chester Times on 11 Jan 1954 in , Chester, PA. SHARON HILL WOMAN DIES FROM AUTO CRASH INJURIES
A Sharon Hill woman died in Abington Memorial Hospital at 12:20 a.m., Sunday, four hours after she was injured in an auto crash in Elkins Park.
The dead woman was identified by Cheltenham police as Mrs. Myrtle B. Beacher, 50, of 712 Poplar st. She was a passenger in a car driven by her husband, Franklin M., an engineer at the Philadelphia Electric Co.
Police said the Beacher car collided with a vehicle driven by Richard Voltz, 17, of Lynnwood road, Glenside, at York and Meetinghouse roads.
Beacher was quoted by police as saying that he, his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Young of Slocum st., Philadelphia, were on their way to a "house warming" in Rydale when the accident occurred.
Mrs. Beacher never regained consciousness. A resident of Sharon Hill for 30 years, she was employed by the F. W. Punell Co., Philadelphia, as head accountant.
Born in Philadelphia, Mrs. Beacher was a graduate of West Philadelphia Girls High School and Taylor Business School.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Beacher is survived by a brother, Lester Brown, of Chester. Her only child, a daugher, died four days after her birth many years ago.
Services will be held at the Drews funeral home, Main st., Darby, on Thursday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill. Friends may call Wednesday evening.


Myrtle married Franklin Mac Morris Beacher, son of George William Beacher Sr. and Hannah Brown Martin. (Franklin Mac Morris Beacher was born on 16 May 1901 in Darby., Delaware, PA,2 4 5 died on 1 Feb 1979 in Sharon Hill, Delaware, PA 4 and was buried in Drexel Hill: Arlington Cemetery, Delaware, PA.)


Sources


1 Pennsylvania Department of Health, Pennsylvania, Death Indices (Pennsylvania Division of Vital Records, New Castle, PA, 16103. Online at http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/public_records/20686 .), Death Certificate 5981. Myrtle B. Beacher.

2 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968 (Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates. Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Death Certificate 10532. Baby Girl Beacher. Father Franklin M. Beacher. Mother Myrtle L. Brown.

3 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968 (Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates. Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Death Certificate 5981. Myrtle B. Beacher. Father Stephen J. Brown. Mother Bertha Wolf.

4 U.S. Social Security Death Index.

5 1910 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Delaware County, Roll 1339 Book 2, Page 148a.



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