OBIT: James A. BRISKEY, 2005, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA
  
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  Briskey, James A.  08/08/05  Daily American
  
  James A. Briskey, 78, Meyersdale, died Aug. 6, 2005, at Select Specialty
  Hospital, Johnstown. Born March 6, 1927, in Garrett, son of the late Alton C.
  and Grace (Miller) Briskey. Survived by his wife, the former Ada C. Shuck;
  three children: Wayne Eugene Briskey and his wife, Deborah, Westbrook, Maine;
  Kimberly Jane, wife of Michael Dirienzo, Meyersdale and Shawn James Briskey,
  Meyersdale; five grandchildren: Heather Lee Vickerson, Adrienne Briskey-Fulton,
  Cassidy Dirienzo, Chase Dirienzo and Cortni Dirienzo. A brother of Robert
  Briskey, Salisbury; Don Briskey, Friedens; Carol Deal, Salisbury and Ruth
  Scheffel, Frederick, Md. James retired from H.J. Beamer Ford and Dean O'Neil
  Ford as a mechanic. A member of Mount Carmel Lutheran Church, White Oak.
  Friends will be received 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Price Funeral
  Home, Meyersdale, where service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday. The
  Rev. Glenn Foster officiating. Interment, Greenville Union Cemetery,
  Meyersdale. Arrangements by William Rowe Price Funeral Home Inc., Meyersdale. 
  
  
  BRISKEY, James A. 08/06/05 The New Republic 
  March 6, 1927 - August 6, 2005 

    James A. Briskey, 78, of Meyersdale, died Saturday, August 6, 2005, at Select
  Specialty Hospital Johnstown. 
    Born March 6, 1927 in Garrett, he was a son of the late Alton C. and Grace
  (Miller) Briskey. 
    He is survived by his wife, the former Ada C. Shuck; and three children:
  Wayne Eugene Briskey and his wife Deborah, Westbrook, Maine; Kimberly Jane,
  wife of Michael Dirienzo, Meyersdale; and Shawn James Briskey, Meyersdale. Also
  five grandchildren: Heather Lee Vickerson, Adrienne Briskey-Fulton, Cassidy
  Dirienzo, Chase Dirienzo, and Cortni Dirienzo. He was a brother of: Robert
  Briskey, Salisbury; Don Briskey, Friedens; Carol Deal, Salisbury; and Ruth
  Scheffel, Frederick, Md.;  
    James retired from H. J. Beamer Ford and Dean O'Neil Ford as a mechanic. He
  was a member of Mt. Carmel Lutheran Church, White Oak. 
    Friends were received from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at Price Funeral Home,
  Meyersdale, where service was conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, with the Rev.
  Glenn Foster officiating. 
    Interment, Greenville Union Cemetery, Meyersdale. 
    Arrangements by the William Rowe Price Funeral Home, Inc., Meyersdale.