OBIT: Emma (CLAAR) REFFNER, 1963, Martinsburg RD, Blair County, PA

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MRS. EMMA REFFNER
 
Of Martinsburg RD, died at 9.40 p.m. yesterday in the Nason Hospital, after an 
extended illness. She was born at Queen on Aug. 11, 1891, a daughter of 
Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hoenstine) Claar, and married William Reffner on March 
17, 1910, at Roaring Spring. Surviving are her husband, eight children, Floyd, 
William and Blair of Roaring Spring RD, Mrs. Gertrude McMaster of Hollidaysburg 
RD, Mrs. Marietta Butler of Martinsburg RD, Elmer and Martin of Roaring Spring 
and Kenneth of New Enterprise RD, 27 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren, a 
brother, Charles of Boston, Mass., and two sisters, Mrs. Annie Roudabush of 
Queen and Miss Pearl of Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Reffner was a member of the 
Roaring Spring Church of the Brethren. Friends will be received at the Miller-
Bolger Funeral Home, Martinsburg, after 7 p.m. tomorrow.
 
Hoenstine Collection of Obituaries, volume 47 (1963), p. 63, pencil-dated 3-15-
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