OBIT: Nannie (WEIMER) BENNER, 1949, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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NANNIE W. BENNER

  Mrs. Nannie W. Benner, 80, Somerset, died early Wednesday, Sept. 28, in the 
Raymond Nursing Home, Johnstown, following a three weeks serious illness.  She 
lived with her niece, Miss Mary Black, in the Vannear apartments.
  She was born in Somerset, February 28, 1869, and was the youngest daughter of 
Francis E. and Maria (Stahl) Weimer.  In 1895 she married William B. Benner.  
She was a sister of the late Mrs. John Milton Black, and made her home with the 
Black family after her husband's death.  She was with the Blacks when they lived 
in Meyersdale between 1915 and 1920.  She was affectionately known to a wide 
circle of friends and relatives as "Aunt Nannie".
  Mrs. Benner was a charter member of the Garden Club of Somerset and of the 
Tuesday Club.  She was keenly interested in all community activities as well as 
in her church.  She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.
  Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in the Walter S. Hoffman 
Funeral Home by her pastor, the Rev. L. Hess Wagner, assisted by the Rev. Henry 
B. Reiley, Jr., of Everett.  Burial in the Union Cemetery, Somerset.

Meyersdale Republican, September 29, 1949