BESSIE PIFER CAIRNS - Widow of Richland Electric Company Founder. Mrs. Bessie Pifer Cairns, 88, widow of Robert V. Cairns, founder of Richland Electric Company, died at People's Hospital Tuesday evening, following a two-week illness.
Born in Franklin Township, April 23, 1877, the daughter of Jacob and Susan Lantz Pifer, Mrs. Cairns had been a resident of this area all her life. Mrs. Cairns was a charter member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, but later, due to health, transferred to the First English Lutheran Church. She was a member of Ruth Chapter No. 17, Order of Eastern Star and Esther Circle of the Women's Association of her church.
Surviving are one son, Ray B. Cairns of Los Angeles, California; three daughters, Mrs. Samuel J. Kuhn Sr., East Hanley Road, Mrs. F. Harold Garrison, 972 Paxford Place, with whom Mrs. Cairns made her home and Mrs. Robert S. Kern, 717 Highland Avenue; one brother, George Pifer, Amoy-Ganges Road; 10 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at the J.H. Finefrock and Sons Funeral Home Friday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. J. Brooks Moore, associate pastor of First English Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in Mansfield Cemetery.
(Mansfield News Journal, 23 June 1965)
Born in Franklin Township, April 23, 1877, the daughter of Jacob and Susan Lantz Pifer, Mrs. Cairns had been a resident of this area all her life. Mrs. Cairns was a charter member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, but later, due to health, transferred to the First English Lutheran Church. She was a member of Ruth Chapter No. 17, Order of Eastern Star and Esther Circle of the Women's Association of her church.
Surviving are one son, Ray B. Cairns of Los Angeles, California; three daughters, Mrs. Samuel J. Kuhn Sr., East Hanley Road, Mrs. F. Harold Garrison, 972 Paxford Place, with whom Mrs. Cairns made her home and Mrs. Robert S. Kern, 717 Highland Avenue; one brother, George Pifer, Amoy-Ganges Road; 10 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at the J.H. Finefrock and Sons Funeral Home Friday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. J. Brooks Moore, associate pastor of First English Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in Mansfield Cemetery.
(Mansfield News Journal, 23 June 1965)
BESSIE PIFER CAIRNS - Widow of Richland Electric Company Founder. Mrs. Bessie Pifer Cairns, 88, widow of Robert V. Cairns, founder of Richland Electric Company, died at People's Hospital Tuesday evening, following a two-week illness.
Born in Franklin Township, April 23, 1877, the daughter of Jacob and Susan Lantz Pifer, Mrs. Cairns had been a resident of this area all her life. Mrs. Cairns was a charter member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, but later, due to health, transferred to the First English Lutheran Church. She was a member of Ruth Chapter No. 17, Order of Eastern Star and Esther Circle of the Women's Association of her church.
Surviving are one son, Ray B. Cairns of Los Angeles, California; three daughters, Mrs. Samuel J. Kuhn Sr., East Hanley Road, Mrs. F. Harold Garrison, 972 Paxford Place, with whom Mrs. Cairns made her home and Mrs. Robert S. Kern, 717 Highland Avenue; one brother, George Pifer, Amoy-Ganges Road; 10 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at the J.H. Finefrock and Sons Funeral Home Friday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. J. Brooks Moore, associate pastor of First English Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in Mansfield Cemetery.
(Mansfield News Journal, 23 June 1965)
Born in Franklin Township, April 23, 1877, the daughter of Jacob and Susan Lantz Pifer, Mrs. Cairns had been a resident of this area all her life. Mrs. Cairns was a charter member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, but later, due to health, transferred to the First English Lutheran Church. She was a member of Ruth Chapter No. 17, Order of Eastern Star and Esther Circle of the Women's Association of her church.
Surviving are one son, Ray B. Cairns of Los Angeles, California; three daughters, Mrs. Samuel J. Kuhn Sr., East Hanley Road, Mrs. F. Harold Garrison, 972 Paxford Place, with whom Mrs. Cairns made her home and Mrs. Robert S. Kern, 717 Highland Avenue; one brother, George Pifer, Amoy-Ganges Road; 10 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at the J.H. Finefrock and Sons Funeral Home Friday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. J. Brooks Moore, associate pastor of First English Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in Mansfield Cemetery.
(Mansfield News Journal, 23 June 1965)
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