Mabel Frances Korn, GW#88

Mabel Frances Korn was born in 1891, the daughter of Lewis E. Korn and Amanda Stump.  Lewis and Amanda were teenagers when they married on 30 January 1892, after the birth of Mabel.  The marriage did not last; they were divorced when Mabel was still a child.  Both Lewis and Amanda married again, and Mabel lived in Allentown, Pa. with her mother and stepfather, Jesse M. Kistler.  In 1909, at the age of 18, Mabel was working as a bookbinder.  The following year, she was working as a shoe worker, still living with her mother and stepfather at 942 Oak St, Allentown, Pa.  In 1911 she joined the Gospel Worker Society which would have been more exciting and fulfilling than sitting in a sweatshop making shoes.  She died in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1918, from the Spanish Influenza.  She is buried in Brooklyn Heights Cemetery along with other Gospel Workers.