Minnie Florence Thatcher
Miss Thatcher Dies in Hospital
Miss Minnie Florence Thatcher, of Route 1, died at 3:30 a.m. today in King’s
Daughters Hospital.
Active in the workings of the Tuscarora Presbyterian Church, and in many
organizations, she was born in Berkeley County, February 28, 1873, daughter of
Jonathan Newton and Emma Cushwa Thatcher.
She was past president of the West Virginia Farm Woman’s Council and past
president and charter member of the Tuscarora Farm Woman’s Club. She helped form
the Tuscarora Indians 4-H Club and the Christian Endeavor of the Tuscarora
Presbyterian Church.
A Master Farm Home Maker, Miss Thatcher was a former member of the Shenandoah
Valley Chapter, N.S.D.A.R., for more than 20 years and was a member of Berkeley
County Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and was active in the
King’s Daughters Hospital Circle for a long period of time.
Her only survivors are two nephews, Newton and Harlan C. Thatcher, Route 1.
Services will be conducted Monday at 11 a.m. at the Tuscarora Presbyterian
Church by the Rev. David Nash and the Rev. John L. Rogers. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
The family will meet at the Brown Funeral Home Monday at 10:30 a.m. before going
to the church.
Friends of the family will be received at the funeral home Sunday from 4 to 6
p.m.
The family has requested that memorial remembrances take the form of
contributions to the Tuscarora Church Building Fund.