OBIT: Robert B. NEARHOOF, 2007, Warriors Mark, Huntingdon County, PA

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ROBERT B. NEARHOOF 

  Mr. Robert B. Nearhoof, age 87, of 2064 Ridge Road, Warriors Mark 
died Monday, March 26, 2007 at 12:35 p.m. at Epworth Manor.
  He was born October 7, 1919 at the family home in Warriors Mark, the 
son of Elmer L. and Mae Goodman Nearhoof.
  On May 16, 1940 at the home of the bride in Birmingham he was married 
to Betty Fike who preceded him in death March 5, 2004.
  Mr. Nearhoof is survived by two sons and a daughter: Elmer (Lynne) of 
Warriors Mark, Robert B. (Becky) II of the Ridge Road, Warriors Mark 
and Sue (Michael) Ronan of Warriors Mark and six grandchildren: Sharon 
(Andrew) May, Amy (Sandor) Toth, Becky (Dillon) Lawson, Andrea Ronan, 
Kenneth N. Nearhoof and Katie Nearhoof. Also surviving are three great-
grandchildren: Eva, Clara and Riley. He was the last of his immediate 
family.
  Mr. Nearhoof was a graduate of Warriors Mark High School class of 
1938.
  During World War II in 1940 and 1941 he was employed at Glenn L. 
Martin Company and from 1941 until 1943 he was employed by the 
Pennsylvania Railroad. He was a lifelong farmer and owned and operated 
his own dairy farm, retiring in 1984.
  Mr. Nearhoof was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church. He had 
served as a delegate to the Eastern Milk Producers Co-op, was a 
Director of the Lehigh Valley and Atlantic Dairy Co-op for a number of 
years. He had served as a school director for 16 years, serving on both 
the Warriors Mark and Tyrone Area School Boards and was president of 
the Tyrone board in 1963. Following his tenure on the Tyrone Area 
Board, he served on the Tyrone Area School Authority. He was a founding 
member of the Warriors Mark Fire Company in 1954. He was a member of 
the board of the Western PA Artificial Breeders Co-op and had served on 
the Administrative Board of the Warriors Mark Methodist Church.
  Mr. Nearhoof particularly enjoyed his family, hunting, his camp and 
riding on his four-wheeler.
  Funeral service for Robert B. Nearhoof will be Friday, March 30, 2007 
at 11 a.m. at the Richard H. Searer Funeral Home Inc. with Pastor Mark 
Liller officiating.
  Interment will follow in Burket Cemetery. Friends may call at the 
funeral home on Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
  Contributions in his memory are requested to the Tyrone Snyder 
Library, 1000 PA Avenue, Tyrone, Pa. 16686 or to the Warriors Mark Fire 
Company, c/o Mark Catherman, Warriors Mark, Pa. 16877.  

Tyrone Daily Herald, March 28, 2007