STARK COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: BEST, Irene STRAIN (d. 1977)
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Obit (from funeral home records) August 14, 1977:

                Mrs. Irene Strain Best

    Mrs. Irene Strain Best, 79, a resident of the Alliance Health Center, 
died there at 12:20pm Saturday after being in ill health for four years.

    Mrs. Best was born in Mishawaka, Ind. Aug. 1, 1898 to James and Anna
Saltsgiver, and had lived in this area most of her life.

    Surviving are her husband, Monte of California;  three sons, Paul Strain 
of Alliance and Donald Strain and Tony Best, both of California;  five
grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

    Graveside services will be held at 2pm tomorrow at Scroggsfield Cemetery 
in Carroll County with Dr. John Norton Williams of First Christian Church
officiating.

    Friends may call at the Cassady and Turkle Funeral Home this afternoon 
and evening.  The family will not be present.