OBIT: Catherine Margaret (AYERS) COUTER, 1983, native of Somerset County, PA

  Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library
  Transcribed by Kerry L. Miller.

  Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/
  _______________________________________________ 

  CATHERINE M. COUTER
  
    Catherine Margaret Couter, 77, of 10 Broadway Circle, died May 7, 1983,
  at her residence.
    Born in Meyersdale, she was the daughter of the late John F. Ayers and
  Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Bonheimer) Ayers.
    She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church; a retired office clerk
  with Quaker City Life Insurance Company, where she worked 31 years; a
  member of the 1926 graduating class of Allegany High School; Senior
  Citizens Colfax Rebekah Lodge No. 1, Cumberland, Md.; past president of the
  Rebekah Assembly of Maryland and financial secretary at the time of her
  death.
    She was preceded in death by her husband, James Earl Couter, who died in
  1974.  She is survived by a number of nieces and nephews.
    Friends were received at the Silcox-Merritt Funeral Home where services
  were conducted with the Rev. Richard E. Manning officiating.  Interment
  will be in Hillcrest Burial Park.
    A service was conducted at the funeral home by the Rev. Robert Johnson. 
  Interment will be in Frostburg Memorial Park.
    Pallbearers were Charles Walker, Freddie Winebrenner, Joseph Cutter,
  James Cutter, Dale Cutter, Paul Cutter and David Cutter.
  
  The Republic, May 12, 1983
  
  [C1045]