OBIT: Erma J. (COWHER) SESSAMEN, 2003, Tyrone, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Miller Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ ERMA J. (COWHER) SESSAMEN Mrs. Erma J. (Cowher) Sessaman, age 74, a guest of Epworth Manor and formerly of Bald Eagle dies Saturday, July 12, 2003 at 4:30 p.m. at the Manor. She was born July 15, 1928 in Sinking Valley, the daughter of William Samuell and Verna Helen Blowers Cowher and on September 18, 1946 was married to Scott Winfield Sessaman who preceded her in death on September 30, 1998. She is survived by three sons, George L. and wife Peggy of Bald Eagle, Edwin R. and wife Barbara of Bellwood and Robert S. of Northwood. She is also survived by 13 grandchildren, Scott, Missy Nail, Brenda DuBois, Sam, Sherry Ross, Lesa Mills, Allison, Bobby Dean, William Markel, David Hoover, Michael, Jeffrey, Scott Goss, 20 great- grandchildren and a half-sister Flossie Isabel Albright. She was preceded in death by a granddaughter Gina Sessaman, brothers Samuel Eugene Cowher and John Blowers Cowher, Albert Lee Cowher, Therman Linwood Cowher, David Lorraine Cowher, a sister Edith Eileen Oswald, half-brothers and sisters Edward Getz, William Elsworth Cowher, Frieda Marie Nevling and Bessie Naomi Hight. She was a member of the Bald Eagle United Methodist Church. She enjoyed knitting and crocheting and particularly enjoyed reading. Funeral service for Mrs. Sessaman will be held Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 11 a.m. at the Richard H. Searer Funeral Home, Tyrone with Reverend Jay Jones officiating. Interment will be at Blair Memorial Park. Friends may call the funeral home on Tuesday from 2-4 p.m. and from 7-9 p.m. Contributions in her memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1004 N. Juniata Street, Hollidaysburg, Pa. 16648. Tyrone Daily Herald, July 14, 2003