OBIT: Irene (Berkey) BARNETT, 2007, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
  
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  BARNETT, Irene Berkey   05/09/07   Daily American
  
     Irene Berkey Barnett, 95, Somerset, died May 7, 2007, at Siemon L a k e v i e w M a n
  o r Estate. Born Sept. 15,1911, in Sipesville, the daughter of Samuel Milton and Valerie
  Ann (Miller) Berkey. At the age of four she went to live with Anna B. and Dr. Charles J.
  Hemminger, first in Rockwood then in Somerset. She is preceded in death by parents;
  husband, Ralph Elwood Barnett, who died April 1, 1990; brothers, Cloyd, Telford, Charles
  and Levi Berkey; and sister, Margaret Shaffer. Irene is sur- vived by two children, Mary
  Ann Hay and husband, Jeff, Golden, Colo.; and William B. Barnett, Milford, Conn.; two
  grandchildren, David Hay and wife, Becky, Golden; and Michael Hay, Los Angeles; and two
  great- grandchildren, Max and Linda Hay, Golden. Also sur- vived by brother, Harold
  Berkey and sister, Anna Mauer, both of Somerset. She graduated from Somerset High School
  in 1930 and from Hood College in 1934 with major in Home Economics, she taught Home
  Economics in Somerset for several years until her mar- riage to her husband, Ralph E.
  Barnett, in 1939. They cel- ebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1989 shortly before
  Ralph's death. For more than 20 years, she taught sewing to adult night school students
  and for a few years she taught nutrition, diet therapy and family living to practical
  nursing students in Somerset. She was an avid gardener all her life. Irene was a 65-year
  member of the Forbes Road Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, where she
  served as regent. She was a 50-year member of the Somerset Garden Club where she had
  served as president. She was a life member of the Somerset Historical Society and served
  as president for many years, also serving on the Ankney Square Association in Somerset.
  She was also a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. Friends received one hour prior to
  service which will be held 4 p.m. Thursday May 10, 2007, at the Trinity Lutheran Chapel,
  Somerset, with the Rev. Linda J. McElroy officiating. Interment Somerset County Memorial
  Park. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in her memory to Trinity Lutheran
  Church, 918 Tayman Ave., Somerset, PA 15501. Arrangements by the Hauger-Zeigler Funeral
  Home, Somerset. www.haugerzeigler.com