OBIT: Ida (ANKENY) BALSLEY, 1965, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  MRS. IDA BALSLEY
  
  Mrs. Ida B. Balsley, 89, of 410 East Cedar Ave., a survivor of the
  Johnstown Flood in 1889, died at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Shawley
  Convalescent and Nursing Home, Youngstown, Pa.  She was born Sept. 14,
  1876, at Meyersdale, a daughter of the late William M. and Sarah Steele
  Ankeny, and spent most of her life in Connellsville.  She was a member of
  Philip Freeman Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and a charter
  member of the Historical and Genealogical Society of Somerset County, and
  was a direct descendant of Capt. Peter Ankeny, of the founders of
  Somerset.  She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.  Surviving are two
  sons, William A., with whom she made her home, and Thomas P. of
  Connellsville; a daughter, Mrs. Ella Louise Johns of Latrobe; five
  grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a sister, Miss Elizabeth I.
  Ankeny of Connellsville.  She was preceded in death by her husband, Samuel
  L., March 1, 1949, and two brothers and two sisters.  The body will be at
  the Brooks funeral home after 3 p.m. today.  The funeral service will be
  held there at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, with the Rev. H. Wahl Pfeifer
  officiating.  Interment will be in Hill Grove Cemetery.  Philip Freeman
  Chapter, D.A.R., will conduct a ritual at 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
  
  The Daily Courier, December 30, 1965
  
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