Mary Elizabeth Falls

Mary Elizabeth Falls
Mary Elizabeth Falls, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, was born on November 19, 1917, and died on November 28, 2011. Mary was born in a lumber camp on Bald Eagle Mountain near Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania. Mary's father, Daniel Bertolet Miller, died as a result of a lumber accident when Mary was two years old after which her mother, Emma Elizabeth Miller (Bleuer) and her older sister, Martha Ellen Miller, and baby brother, Daniel Bertolet Miller, Jr. moved to New Martinsville, West Virginia, in order to be close to family.
Mary graduated from Magnolia High School (1935) in New Martinsville and also graduated from The Elliot School of Business (1938) in Wheeling, West Virginia. Next, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she worked for the Army Air Corps with General Curtis LeMay in the Pentagon during World War II. It was in Washington where she met a handsome sergeant, her soon to be husband, Roy Peters Falls. They married in Jacksonville, Florida, on February 16, 1945, where Roy was stationed in the Army.
After the war the couple settled in the Ellet area of Akron, Ohio. Mary became a mother of three children: Jean Elizabeth, Jay Edward, and John Earl. She remained active in family, church, and community life having served on PTA, in the Arlington Memorial Baptist church as a Sunday school teacher, church clerk, and as a member of various groups within the church. For many years, she supported her community as an election poll worker, census taker, and head of the Neighborhood Sewing Circle. During these years Mary also provided child care in her home.
Later in life Mary started a new chapter in her career as a tax preparer for H & R Block. She worked tax season after tax season until at the age of 80 she received her 30 year award.
Besides her parents, Mary was preceded in death by her husband Roy Peters Falls, brother Daniel Bertolet Miller, Jr., and sister Martha Ellen (Miller) Winland. She is survived by her three children: Jean Falls Stiles (Steve), Jay Edward Falls (Patty), and John Earl Falls (Cindy). She has eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Kind, warm, funny, hardworking, supportive, and understanding, she will long be remembered and deeply loved by all who had the good fortune to know her. We rejoice that she is no longer suffering and is now home with her Lord.
Calling hours are from 5-7 PM Sunday, December 4 at the Newcomer Funeral Home, 131 N. Canton Rd. in Ellet. Funeral services will be held on Monday at Crossroads Bible Fellowship, 737 George Washington Blvd., Akron at 11 AM. Interment at Hillside Memorial Park will follow the service.