OBIT: Margaret (ROBY) BAER, 2000, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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  BAER

  Margaret Baer, 102, Patriot Manor, Somerset, passed away Dec. 3, 2000, at the
  Manor.  Born Nov. 26, 1898, in Maysville, W.Va., the third child of Benjamin G.
  and Mary (Smith) Roby.  She was married in 1923 to William J. Baer Sr., who
  died in 1992.  She was also preceded in death by son William Baer Jr., one
  brother, two half-sisters, and two grandchildren.  She is survived by
  children, Jacqueline Coffroth of Sacramento, Calif., Betty L. Baer, PhD., of
  Green Bay, Wis., Richard R. Baer, married to Joan Custer of Osage, La., and
  Thomas L. Baer, married to Dorothy Lape, with whom she lived on the family
  farm in Somerset; daughter-in-law, Ruth Baer of Bedford; 16 grandchildren; 43
  great-grandchildren; 3 great-great-grandchildren; 1 niece; 9 great-nieces; and
  several cousins.  She was a graduate of the Western Maryland School of Nursing
  and worked as an industrial nurse at the Celanese Corp. before moving to
  Somerset to take over the family farm in 1924.  She continued nursing at
  Somerset Hospital and many family homes, having cared for as many as three
  generations of people in several families.  Her devotion to her children and
  love of nursing led to the admiration and love of her neighbors, most of 
  whom she cared for.  She had a keen sense of the need for higher education for
  those of her children desiring it.  She and her husband also raised a foster
  son after their own children were raised.  She was a long-time member of the
  Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church in Lavansville and was a member of the Forbes
  Road Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.  Friends received
  from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at Miller Funeral Home, Somerset.  A service
  will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church where the
  family will receive friends one hour prior to service, Pastor Edward Ebersole
  officiating.  Interment Somerset County Memorial Park.  Memorial contributions
  may be sent to Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, 3093 Glades Pike, Somerset, Pa.,
  15501, or the American Heart Association, 224 Broad St., Johnstown, Pa.,
  15501.

  Daily American, December 5, 2000

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