OBIT: Leon ATHERTON, 1997, Somerset, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed by John C. Oester. Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ LEON ATHERTON Leon Atherton, 84 [sic], of Grandview Avenue, Somerset, died June 9, 1997, in Somerset Hospital. Born Oct. 6, 1913 in Ohio. Son of the late Reuben and Alice (Buehring) Atherton. Survived by wife, Susan (Reffner) Atherton, and these children: Lucy, Indiana; Margaret, Alice, Leota, and Marvin, all of Ohio. Stepchildren: Bettery, Floriday; Phyllis, Hollsopple; Richard, Virginia; Donald, Boswell; Alton Jr., Breezwood; Roy, New Jersey, and Lynn, Somerset. Brother of Robert and Earl, both of Ohio, and Richard, California. Also a number of grandchilren and great-grandchildren. Member of the Harbor Lighthouse Church of Berlin. Friends will be received from 7-9 pm Tuesday in Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home. Other arrangements are incomplete. ATHERTON Funeral serive for Leon Altheron, 83, of Grandview Avenue, Somerset will be conducted at 10 am Thrusday in Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home, Rev. Ralph Tinkey Jr. officiating. Interment Somerset County Memorial Park. Friends will be received from 2-4 and 7-9 pm today (Wednesday) in the funeral home. Daily American June 10, 1997 [N0407]