Inc. 1967
Seized suddenly with paralysis while on her way to a W.C.T.U.meeting in Belle Vernon,Mrs. Lottie A. Trexal,wife of Editor Lee M.Truxal of the Belle Vernon Enterprise,died just after being removed to her home in Belle Vernon Monday night,March 9,1914 at 8 o'clock. She was in her 57th year. Mrs. Truxal left home at about 7:45 o'clock for the home of Dr. Martin, where the W. C. T. U. meeting was to be held. Her husband started out with her to assist her up a pair of steps leading to an upper street. Part way up the steps, Mrs. Truxal felt faint and complained of illness. She remarked that she had better go back home. Mr. Truxal assisted her a few steps on her return, but she became so ill that he had to leave her sitting on the steps while he hurried for aid. She was rapidly becoming worse, when he returned with help, but she was removed to her home. In but a brief space of time she was dead within ten feet of where she was born. Mrs. Truxal was a prominent woman in Belle Vernon. She served as assistant editor of the Enterprise. She was the daughter of the late Rev. James and Mrs. Davidson, Rev. Davidson being a local Methodist Episcopal minister. Mrs. Truxal was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a consistent communicant in that faith. In W. C. T. U. circles, Mrs. Truxal was a leader. She was also prominent in affairs of the Ladies of the Maccabees at the time of her death being the lady commander of the Belle Vernon hive. She was affiliated with the Band of Israel and was a member and earnest worker with the Women's Foreign Missionary Society cf the Belle Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church. In the immediate family one son, Claude H. Truxal of Chicago and Cleveland, and one daughter, Mrs. Charles M. Harvey of Belle Vernon survive. Also two brothers and four sisters survive. They are: S. T. Davidson of Buffalo, N. Y., Robert H. Davidson of Chicago,ILL., Mrs. C. E. Peck of Glendale, CaL, Mrs. W. R. Jones of Morgantown, W, Va., Lottie V. Davidson and Violet Davidson of Belle Vernon. Funeral services will be conducted on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with services at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, with Rev. J. B. Taylor as the officiating minister. Interment will be in the Belle Vernon Cemetery.
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