OBIT: Minerva (WALKER) BERKLEY, 1943, Berlin R.D., Somerset County, PA

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MINERVA BERKLEY

  Mrs. Minerva Berkley, 77, of Berlin, R.D. 3, died Friday morning, Apr. 16, in 
the Somerset Community Hospital after an extended illness.  She had been a 
patient in the hospital just one day.
  Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, April 18th, 
in the Johnson Funeral Home, Berlin, by Rev. Elwood Stahl, pastor of St. Paul's 
Lutheran Church.  Interment in Union Cemetery, Meyersdale.
  Mrs. Berkley was a daughter of Silas and Eliza Walker of Summit Township and 
was born Aug. 5, 1865.  Her husband, Emmanuel Berkley of Meyersdale, died 10 
years ago.  She is survived by a brother, Robert B. Walker, of Hollywood Inn.
  Mrs. Berkley was aged 77 years, 8 months and 11 days at the time of her death.  
After her husband's death she continued to live in Meyersdale for several years, 
then sold her home here and went to live with her brother, R. B. Walker, and 
wife at Hollywood Inn, and until her fatal illness divided her time about 
equally living with her brother and wife at Hollywood, and her nephew, Silas E. 
Walker, in Pittsburgh.

Meyersdale Republican, April 22, 1943