June 27, 2020

My deepest sympathy to the family.  Although I never met her, I had heard very nice remembrances about she and Zeke from my husband Charlie.  Take comfort in knowing that she is a bright light in heaven and watching over her loved ones.
Kay Althouse

June 26, 2020

Condolences to the family! From the Eshleman (Reinhart) family. I think that we had 4 generations of our family who lived across the street from Mary and Zeke, and who lived very close to your other family members, too, in Strasburg-and then Mary lived in the same development as one of my sisters…Then later we saw her from time to time in Lititz when we visited my aunt (the same aunt that Mary’s sister Ruth bought her house from). Mary was always so sweet when we chatted! I’m sure that you all are really missing her, but also can take some comfort in thinking about her joyful reunion in heaven with other loved ones!
I also found out that we are probably distant relatives of Zeke, since we have some Winters ancestry, but I don’t have enough info to be able to tell you exactly how we link together. It’s approximately the Civil War era, and I believe that my lines of connecting families are Winters, Miller, Kreider, Heisler. I would be glad to provide more specific info if anyone in the family is currently working on genealogy.
Again, our condolences on your loss. I’m sad that it was probably made more difficult by the current restrictions on visiting. Sadly, most families can’t even substitute telephone calls to replace visits, since most of our older family members have issues with hearing, memory, motor skills for dialing and holding phones, and they usually don’t have, or can’t use, current technology to video chat, etc.

June 22, 2020

Mary Ann, So sorry to see your mother’s passing ,she was always so welcoming when you invited me to stay over. Hope you are doing well-hopefully we can get together some time. Your ‘Old friend Kathleen Lyet 9McCarthy)