Barnes Family

"Maurice Elmer Mottern, 132 W. Third street, died at the Frederick City Hospital Tuesday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock after an illness of five weeks, aged 77 years. Mr. Mottern was a son of the late Robert and Sarah Shaffer Mottern and a member of Mt. Zion Lutheran church near Feagaville for many years. He had been a resident of Elkins, W. Va., for forty years where he was engaged in the saw mill business. In recent months he had returned to this city to make his home with his daughter Mrs. Ethel Pickett. In addition to Mrs. Pickett surviving him are one son Elmer W. Mottern, this city, three grand-children Cletus Bowlus, Hagerstown; Mrs. Wilson Stup, Frederick; Mrs. George C. VanFossen, Baltimore and three great-grand-children also survive. The body is at the funeral home 106 East Church street, from where the funeral will take place Thursday afternoon at three o'clock. Interment will be made in Mt. Olivet cemetery. Friends may call after noon today. M. R. Etchison and Son, funeral directors."