OBIT: Etta (CARVER) BRINDLE, 2001, native of Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Sally Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ BRINDLE Etta (Carver) Brindle, 83, of Clymer, died Aug. 6, 2001 at her home. A daughter of Henry Harrison and Bertha Dwier Carver, she was born on Aug. 6, 1918 in Shade Township. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Louis Young Brindle in 1976; brothers, Ernest Willard Carver and Gurenza John Carver; a sister, Pauline Mildred Miles, and brothers who died in childhood. She is survived by her son, Lewis Carver of Manhatten [sic], N.Y., and her daughter F. Diane Brindle of Boston, Mass. Mrs. Brindle was a member of the Clymer Presbyterian Church where she held leadership positions in the Women's Association and was a Sunday school teacher of both children and adults. She had worked as a secretary in the steel and dry cleaning industries. She was a Girl Scout leader; a member of the Order of the Eastern Star Chapter 221 of Latrobe. Etta volunteered for the Easter Seals Society and the Presbyterian Homes and St. Andrew's Village. She had been a band mother and belonged to various local card clubs. Friends will be received from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Bence Funeral Home in Clymer where funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Rev. Carol Off officiating. Interment will follow in Greenwood Cemetery in Indiana. Her family requests donations be made to the Memorial Fund of the Clymer Presbyterian, 415 Sixth St., Clymer, Pa. 15728. Daily American, August 9, 2001 [B2679]