OBIT: Delilah (BOYER) BEAL, 1943, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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DELILAH BEAL

  Mrs. Delilah (Boyer) Beal, 80, died at 4:30 o'clock last Saturday morning at 
her home near Meyersdale, after a brief illness.
  A daughter of Benjamin and Susan (Crosby) Boyer, she was born near Meyersdale 
on March 16, 1882.  Her husband, Jacob Beal, a veteran of the Civil War, died 25 
years ago.  A son, Jacob, was killed in France in World War I, and two grandsons 
and a great-grandson are now serving in the Armed Forces of the United States.
  Surviving are eight children - Mrs. Mary Fuller, Stoystown; Mrs. Eugene 
Bowman, Meyersdale; Mrs. Alva Bittner, Meyersdale, R.D.; Benjamin C., 
Connellsville; Rollo, Windber; William H., at home; Luther R. and Charles H., 
both of Meyersdale.
  Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Amanda Cole, Riofott, Ill.; three brothers, 
Cyrus and John C., both of Chicago, Ill., and Hiram, Washington, D.C., and 41 
grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.
  Mrs. Beal was a member of the Amity Evangelical and Reformed Church and the 
War Mothers Association of Meyersdale.
  Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in Amity 
Evangelical and Reformed Church by Rev. Nelson C. Brown.  Interment in the 
church cemetery under the direction of W. C. Price & son, Meyersdale morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, April 22, 1943