OBIT: Robert E. BOYER, 2001, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
  
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  BOYER
  
    Robert E. Boyer, 79, of Somerset, formerly of Kantner, died March
  28, 2001 at Altoona Hospital.  Born Aug. 11, 1921 in St. Clairsville,
  Bedford County.  Son of William E. and Alberta S. (Fetter) Boyer. 
  Preceded in death by parents, wife Edna (Sechler),
  great-granddaughter Jessica Charlton, brothers, George, Melvin,
  Richard, William, Eugene and John, and sisters, Florence and
  Jessie.  Survived by children: Lynn married to the former Chrystol
  Kennell of Chambersburg; Linda married to Samuel F. Donia of
  Stoystown, and Lois married to Alan Miller of RD Hooversville.  Also
  nine grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and two sisters, Betty
  Boyer and Mary Jo Yingling, both of Somerset.  He was a sergeant in
  the Army Air Corps during World War II.  Member of Kantner United
  Methodist Church, Stoystown American Legion, Quemahoning, North
  Branch and Mercersburg rod and gun clubs.  Also member of Somerset
  Fraternal Order of Eagles and a 1998 inductee in the Somerset County
  Baseball Hall of Fame.  He was a coal miner and a maintenance person
  at the former Briggs Corp. of Somerset.  Family will receive friends
  from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Deaner Funeral Home,
  Stoystown.  Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Kantner
  United Methodist Church with the Rev. Thomas H. Zimmerman
  officiating.  Interment, Odd Fellows Cemetery, Stoystown.
  
  Daily American, March 29, 2001
  
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