OBIT: Rachel Amanda (WHIPPO) HAMER, 1937, Huntingdon County, PA

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MRS. RACHAEL A. HAMER 

  Mrs. Rachel Amanda Hamer, aged resident of Warrior's Mark, died at 
the home of her daughter, Mrs. David Patterson, at Warrior's Mark on 
Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock following a three days' illness with 
influenza.  
  Mrs. Hamer was a daughter of Jesse and Anna Stine Hicks Whippo, and 
was born at Clarion, Pa., on May 31, 1853.  On September 7, 1876, at 
State College she was united in marriage with John Hamer.  
  She is survived by four daughters:  Mrs. David Patterson, Warrior's 
Mark; Mrs. C. M. Kauffman, Juniata;  Mrs. J. M. Irvin, Juniata; Mrs. 
Eugene F. Neff, Warrior's Mark; also 11 grandchildren and 20 great 
grandchildren.   
  She was a member of the Warrior's Mark Methodist Episcopal church. 
  Funeral services will be held on Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at 
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Eugene F. Neff, Warrior's Mark, 
conducted by Reverend David Kerr, followed by burial in the  Burket 
cemetery, Warrior's Mark.

Tyrone Daily News, Tyrone, Pa., Wednesday, January 6, 1937