Obituaries: Laura Etta SHOEMAKER 1939: Clarion County, PA
  
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  Laura Etta Shoemaker  died January 10, 1939
  
  Mrs. Laura Etta Shoemaker, for many years a well known resident of Porter
  township, Clarion county, died at 11:00 oÕclock, Tuesday morning, January
  10, 1939 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harvey C. Miller, of Brookside,
  West Virginia.  She was 79 years of age.
  
  She had gone to Brookside last fall to visit her daughters, Mrs. Miller and
  Mrs. S.S. Campbell of Martins Ferry, Ohio.  She became ill about a week ago
  at the Miller home.  However, she had been in declining health for some
  years.
  
  Mrs. Shoemaker was born in Armstrong county February 10, 1860, the daughter
  of John and Caroline Pence.  September 25, 1877 she was married to Davis G.
  Shoemaker who passed away December 23, 1932.  She was a member of the
  Leatherwood Baptist church.
  
  Four daughters and three sons survive, namely:  Mrs. D.M. Divins, Sligo;
  Mrs. E. Ford Wilson, East Brady, Pa; Mrs. H.C. Miller, Brookside, W. Va.;
  Mrs. S.S. Campbell, Martins Ferry, O.; Claude E. Shoemaker, Atwater O.;
  Thomas B. of New Bethlehem, and Dr. John Shoemaker of Rimersburg.
  Thirty-one grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, and one  great great
  grandchild survive.  Of her fatherÕs family, three sisters and two brothers
  survive; Mrs. E.W. Marshall, Pittsburgh; Mr. F.J. Marshall and Mrs. Zella
  Pence, New Bethlehem; B. M. pence, of Clarion, and Meade Pence of Mahoning,
  Pa.
  
  The body was taken to Howard Wilson funeral home in Bridgeport where
  services were held Wednesday evening at 8:15 oÕclock, conducted by Rev. J.E.
  Scott of Thomson M.E. church., Thursday morning the body was taken to the
  home of her daughter, Mrs. E.F. Wilson of East Brady, where brief funeral
  services were conducted at 1:00 oÕclock Friday afternoon., followed by
  additional services at 2:00 oÕclock in the Squirrel Hill Presbyterian church
  conducted by Revs. Gerald Palmer, pastor and Rev. H. T. Chisholm of the East
  Brady Presbyterian church.  Interment took place in the Squirrel Hill
  cemetery.