OBIT: Myrtle E. (BURKETT) BROWN, 1985, native of Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Richard Boyer Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ BROWN Myrtle E. Brown, 85, of 344 Highland Ave., Johnstown, formerly of Jerome, died July 9, 1985, in Memorial Hospital. Born Aug. 25, 1899, in Glencoe, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Saylor) Burkett. Preceded in death by parents; husband, William H., died Feb. 13, 1960; two great-grandsons; and eight sisters and brothers. Survived by these children: Kenneth ("Bud"), married to Bessie Woy of Somerset; Clarence E., married to Ruth Holsopple; and Gladys, wife of Donald C. Holsopple, both of Hollsopple; Betty, wife of Ernest Croyle of Johnstown; Robert E. Sr., married to Betty Trexel of Boswell; 11 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; sister-in-law, Elsie Unger Burkett, widow of Charles Burkett, Gray. Member of the Church of the Brethren. Family receiving friends 7-9 p.m. Thursday and 3:30-9 p.m. Friday at the George E. Mason Funeral Home, Davidsville, where services will be conducted 11 a.m. Saturday, the Rev. R. Eugene Miller. Interment, Maple Spring Cemetery. Daily American, July 11, 1985 [B2941]