OBIT: Lavina "Honey" (HENDERSON) CONNER, 1989, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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  LAVINA H. CONNER
  
    Lavina H. "Honey" Conner, 81, of Stringtown, Hyndman RD 1, died
  Wednesday, November 1, 1989, at the University of Maryland Medical Center
  in Baltimore, Md.
    Born April 11, 1908, in Glassport, she was the daughter of the late James
  and Grace (Close) Henderson.
    She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles W. Conner, in 1967.
    She was a former owner and operator of a beauty salon and worked as an
  aircraft riveter during World War II and later as a seamstress in the
  Cumberland area.  She was a member of the Cooks Mills United Methodist
  Church, where she served as pianist, and was a worthy past matron of the
  Rebecca Arnold Chapter 57 Order of the Eastern Star of Mount Savage.  She
  was also past president of the Cumberland Woodmen of the World and a former
  Girl Scout leader for the Hyndman troop.
    Surviving are one son, James H. Conner, Bel Air, Md.; one daughter, Ms.
  Cheryl V. Sill, Marco Island, Fla.; one brother, James Henderson, Quartz
  Site, Ariz.; one sister, Mrs. Myrtle Wilkinson, Beaver Falls; seven
  grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
    Friends were received at the Harvey H. Zeigler Funeral Home, Hyndman.
    Services were conducted Saturday at l p.m. at the Cooks Mills United
  Methodist Church by the Rev. Joseph R. Stains officiating.
    Interment, Porter Cemetery.
  
  The Republic, November 9, 1989
  
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