OBIT: Alverta A. (KNEPP) AMTOWER, 1995, Wellersburg, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by John C. Oester/Carol Hepburn Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ ALVERTA AMTOWER Alverta A. Amtower, 86, of Wellersburg, died Jan. 3, 1995 at Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, Md. Born Sept. 14, 1908 in Meyersdale, she was a daughter of the late William A. and Nellie N. (Weimer) Knepp. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Virgil V. Amtower, who died Dec. 24, 1993. She is survived by a daughter, Carley S. Welsh and husband Kenneth, Wellersburg; two grandchildren, Kenneth Wayne Welsh and Albert Welsh, Wellersburg; and a sister, Lavada M. Rogers, Garrett. Mrs. Amtower retired with 32 years of employement in the coning department at the Amcelle Plant, Celanese Corperation of America, Cumberland. She was a member of the Zion Lutheran and Reformed Church of Wellersburg. Services were conducted Jan. 6 at the Harvey H. Zeigler Funeral Home, Hyndman, with the Rev. Harold W. Crabtree officiating. Interment, Hillcrest Burial Park, Cumberland. New Republic Jan. 12, 1995 [A201]