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Distinguished Citizen 1977

George Ernest Ambrose 1880 – 1941, DC 1977 From Ancestry Spouse: Delena Pearl "Lena" Bohrer Father: Mathias Washington Ambrose Mother: Nancy Jane "Nannie" Fultz Children: Sterling Lee Owen Birth: 11 Mar 1880 Rock Gap, Morgan, West Virginia, USA Death: 24 Oct 1941 Brunswick, Frederick, Maryland, USA Residence: 1920 Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA

From Find A Grave

Birth 11 Mar 1880 Morgan County, West Virginia, USA Death 24 Oct 1941 (aged 61) Brunswick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA Burial Park Heights Cemetery Brunswick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA Plot Section C/469

GEORGE ERNEST AMBROSE, for many years chief of police of Brunswick, died Friday morning at Schnauffer Hospital in Brunswick following an illness of eight months. He retired from the Brunswick police in the early part of the year, and since then has been engaged as a watchman in a Brunswick factory, he was well-known throughout the county.

Surviving are his wife, Lena Pearl Rohrer Ambrose; several children, Mrs. Wilma Sigafoose, Brunswick; Dewey H. Ambrose, chief of police of Charles Town, W.Va.; Ernest Ambrose, Mrs. Pearl Gosnell and Doris Ambrose, Brunswick; and by the following brothers and sisters, C. William Ambrose, Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; Mrs. Fairy Yost, Mrs. May Yost, Mrs. Elizabeth Hovermale, all of Oakland, W.Va.

Funeral services were conducted at the Brunswick Methodist Church with town officials activing as pallbearers; interment was in Park Heights Cemetery; arrangements were by Charles H. Feete and Bro., funeral directors.

Source: The Frederick Post (Frederick, MD) Saturday, October 25, 1941 Brunswick: 100 Years of History (1990) Ambrose, George Ernest (1880-1941) Honored 1977 George Ernest Ambrose became the night watchman for Brunswick in 1926, a position which also included duties as official policeman. Eventually he became Assistant Chief of Police, and in 1937, Chief of Police. From 1926 to 1941 he was the sole operator of the Police Department’s motorcycle.