OBIT/Other Data: Emma Elizabeth (STRAWSER) BARNER, 1981, Barners Cemetery, Perry County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Lee Bates Fisher and Patricia Knouse Campbell Transcribed by Nancy Lorz. Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/perry/ html listing for Barner [St. John's] Cemetery may be found at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/perry/tsimages/barners-al.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/perry/tsimages/barners-mz.htm _______________________________________________ MRS. EMMA E. BARNER PORT TREVORTON - Mrs. Emma Elizabeth Barner, 65, Port Trevorton RD1, died at 10:25 a.m. Saturday in the Doctors' Convalescent Center, Selinsgrove, where she had been a resident for two days. Prior to being admitted to the center she had been a patient in the Evangelical Community Hospital, Lewisburg, since Sept. 10. She had been transferred to the Evangelical from the Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, wherre she was admitted Aug. 3. Her husband, Victor W. Barner, died in 1966. Early in life, she was employed at the Port Trevorton Silk Mill. Later, she was employed at the Selinsgrove Center, retiring in April 1980, because of ill health. Born Nov. 11, 1915, in Liverpool RD1, Perry County, she was the daughter of the late Edward and Mary Alice Funk Strawser. Mrs. Barner was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist church, Liverpool RD1. Surviving are two sons, Kenneth R. of Port Trevorton RD1 and David L. of Middleburg RD1; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and three brothers, Benjamin Strawser Sr. of Liverpool RD1, Elmer Strawser of Fleming, N.J., and George Strawser of Millerstown RD2. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the George P. Garman Funeral Home, Liverpool, by the Rev. Lear E. Shambach and the Rev. George V. Peters. Burial will be in Barner's Church Cemetery, Liverpool RD1. Friends may call in the funeral home Tuesday evening. Clipping [1981]