OBIT: Helen Jean (YOUNKIN) CONN BURNS, 1990, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  BURNS
  
    Helen Jean Conn Burns, 61 years, of Route 30 east Latrobe, died
  Tuesday, March 27, 1990, in the Latrobe Area Hospital.  She was born
  April 27, 1928, in Confluence.  Daughter of the late James and Hazel
  McNair Younkin.  She was a member of the Church of the Nazarene in
  Confluence.  In addition to parents, she was preceded in death by two
  sisters, Charlotte and Pearl, and one brother, James Younkin.  She is
  survived by her husband, Lester (Skinny) Burns; three children, Larry
  Conn, Youngstown, Pa.; Thomas Conn, Latrobe, and Mrs. Roy (Linda)
  Schmucker, Loyalhanna, Pa.  Four step-children - Kenneth Burns, New
  Alexandria; Duane, Latrobe; Mrs. Hobert (Darlene) Porterfield,
  Ligonier, and Mrs. Gene Charlene Springer, Rector; also five sisters
  - Bessie Campbell, Zola Baroni, Mabel Plume and Jessie Yeager, all of
  Confluence, and Vesta Kirzgavins, Latrobe.  Seven grandchildren, one
  great-grandchild and 10 step-grandchildren.  Friends will be received
  at the Snyder Funeral Home, Route 982 south, Latrobe, from 7 to 9 p.m.
  Wednesday and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday.  Services will
  be held in the funeral home at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, with Rev. Thomas
  Charles officiating.  Additional services will be held at 11:30 a.m.
  Friday in the Church of the Nazarene, Confluence, where the body will
  lie in state one hour prior to the service.  Interment in the Jersey
  Hollow Cemetery.
  
  Daily American, March 28, 1990
  
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