Obits:  Dean Learn,  Indiana Co, PA

SUBJECT: Dean Learn Obituary
SUBMITTER: Leslie Kammerdiener
EMAIL: lesliekamm@hotmail.com
DATE: Oct 29, 1998
SURNAMES: 
As taken from the Indiana Gazette, Oct. 27, 1998

Dean Jennings Learn, 104, Commodore RD 1, died Sunday, Oct. 25, 1998, at
his home.

Born March 19, 1894, on the family dairy farm in Learn Settlement near
Cookport, he was the son of Elias and Annie Brown Learn. He spent his entire
life on the family farm. He and his wife Elma Blackburn Learn had celebrated
their 70th anniversary on June 20, 1998.

He was a member of the New Life Lutheran Church of Marion Center RD 2.

Dean was known as a progressive farmer of his time, completing a course
in agriculture at the Pennsylvania State College and keeping up with the
latest trends. He was also a hard worker, harvesting an eight-acre field
of grain by hand during a wet summer when mud prevented getting machinery
into the field. He established a herd of registered Guernsey cows while
working part-time through the year as a woodsman, coal miner and railroad
trackman.

Dean served a term as a member of the Green Twp. School Board and was a
charter member of the Green Twp. Fair Assoc. as well as a member of many
agricultural organizations.

Surviving are his wife Elma, of Learn Settlement, Commodore RD 1; two daughters,
Mrs. Ila Hoke and husband Paul, St. Thomas, Pa., and Mrs. Joan DuBois and
husband Ted, of Allentown; one son, Walter Learn and wife Yvonne, of Learn
Settlement, Commodore RD 1.

Also surviving are the following grandchildren: Renee Creeden, Fruita,
Colo.; Bryan Hoke, St. Thomas, Pa.; Andrea Hoke and Alison Hoke, Elizabethtown,
Pa.; Diane DuBois, Felton, Pa.; Beth Habermehl, Topton, Pa.; Tim DuBois,
Allentown, Pa.; Marc DuBois, Germansville, Pa.; Ronald, John and Fred Learn,
all of Commodore RD 1; Andy Learn, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio;
and Jerry Learn, Milton, Vt.; and these great grandchildren: Sean and Eric
Creeden, Fruita, Colo.; Lori, Logan and Luke Habermehl, Topton, Pa.; Michael
and Matthew Learn, Commodore RD 1; Megan, Christopher and Joshua Learn,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio; and Zachary Raupach-Learn, Milton,
Vt.

He was preceded in death by his parents and four sisters, Flora Ribblett,
Hettie Waddell, Nellie Fleming and Alma Martin.

Friends will be received at the Rairigh Funeral Home in Hillsdale from
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday where services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday.
Pastor Sandra Kennedy will officiate and interment will be in the Cookport
Methodist Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to the VNA/Hospice of Indiana County, 119
Professional Center, Suite 303, Indiana, Pa. 15701.


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