OBIT: Vierma I. "Bobby" (SHIPLEY) BLOOM, 1999, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  BLOOM
  
    Vierma I. "Bobby" Bloom, 87, of Connellsville has gone to her rest with
  our Lord on Mon., Feb. 1, 1999, while in the Frick Hospital, Mount
  Pleasant.  She was born Sept. 23, 1911, in Confluence, a daughter of the
  late Joseph R. Jr. and Bessie Mae Greer Shipley.  Vierma was raised in
  South Connellsville and also lived in Brockway, Pa., and Connellsville. 
  She was a homemaker and excelled in handiwork hobbies.  She also was an
  avid reader and a family historian.  As a young woman, she worked at
  Hagen's Dairy Bar, a Connellsville greenhouse and the Joseph Bennet Pants
  Factory.  She was a faithful and lifelong member of the Albright United
  Methodist Church in South Connellsville.  In addition to her parents, she
  was predeceased by her beloved husband of 42 years, Robert Earl Bloom, in
  1971, and 2 brothers, Delford "Pete" Shipley and Kenzie McClintock, and an
  infant sister, Iva Dean Shipley.  Survived by a sister, Edythe DeBolt of
  Norwalk, Calif., and 3 brothers:  Joseph R. Shipley Jr. of South
  Connellsville, Roy A. Shipley and his wife Jean of South Connellsville, and
  Don Shipley and his wife Helen, also of South Connellsville, and many nieces
  and nephews.  Friends will be received from 1-3 and 6-9 today in the Brooks
  Funeral Home, Inc., 111 E. Green St., Connellsville where a funeral service
  will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, with Rev. Dr. Marvin C. Watson
  officiating.  A committal service and interment will follow in Green Ridge
  Memorial Park, Pennsville.
  
  Daily American, February 3, 1999
  
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