OBIT: Ralph Zimmerman BOWERS, 1994, Rockwood, Somerset County, PA
  
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  BOWERS
  
    Ralph Zimmerman Bowers, 81, of 533 Bridge St., Rockwood, died Feb.
  14, 1994, at Somerset Hospital.  Born Nov. 22, 1912, in Quemahoning
  Township.  A son of the late John and Mary (Zimmerman) Bowers. 
  Survived by his wife, the former Thelma Klink; a son, Ralph Wilbur
  Bowers of Friedens; two daughters:  Alverta Sembower of Somerset and
  LaVonne Bankoske of Marion, Ohio; also 12 grandchildren, 16
  great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren.  Also two
  sisters, Alma Head of Levittown and Wilma Barchey of Ocala, Fla., and
  two brothers, Paul of Erie and Vernon of Branson, Mo.  Preceded in
  death by a son, John L.; a grandson, an infant granddaughter and a
  sister, Edna Zarefoss.  He was a member of the Old Bethel Church of
  God.  A former employee of York Borg-Warner and the Somerset Bus
  Co.  Friends will be received at the Humbert Funeral Home,
  Confluence, from 2 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
  Thursday, the hour of service, Rev. Douglas Stone officiating. 
  Interment, Somerset County Memorial Park.
  
  Daily American, February 15, 1994
  
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