OBIT: Frances (Speicher) RICHARDS BALLANTINE, 2005, formerly of Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Barry and Betty Christy. jhurl@meyersdalelibrary.org Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ----------------------------------------------- Ballantine, Frances (Speicher) Richards 09/21/05 Daily American Frances (Speicher) Richards-Ballantine, 89, Las Vegas, formerly of Boswell, died Sept. 9, 2005, in Las Vegas. Born Sept. 16, 1915, in Garrett, daughter of Harry and Ada Brumbaugh Speicher. Preceded in death by parents; brother, H. Brumbaugh Speicher and sister, Dorothy Murray. Survived by children, Barbara (Richards) Round, Las Vegas; and Paula (Richards) Roemele, Fombell; four grandchildren; and sister, Wilma Ashe, Fort Wayne, Ind. She was education secretary for Penn Hills School District for 19 years. Interment St. Johns Cemetery. Arrangements by Hauger-Zeigler Funeral Home.