OBIT: Orville CROWE, 1947, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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ORVILLE CROWE

  Orville Crowe, 53, a veteran of World War I, died last Sunday morning in the 
Miners' Hospital, Frostburg, where he had been a patient for a month.  He was 
the son of the late John and Ida Crowe, and was born in the Savage Mountain 
section of Garrett County, where he resided until three months ago when he moved 
to Frostburg.
  Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Cleota Pope; five children, 
Kenneth Crowe, Potomac Park; Wilford Crowe and Mrs. Leota McKenzie, Finzel; Mrs. 
Iva De Haven, Winchester, Va., and Mrs. Evelyn Beiman, Wright's Crossing; two 
brothers, Gilbert Crowe, Eglon, W.Va., and Gurney Crowe, Cumberland; also four 
sisters, Mrs. Lela Coleman, Frostburg; Mrs. Hazel Brode, Midlothian; Mrs. Pearl 
Griffith, Finzel, and Mrs. Lulu Wampler, Route 40, near New Colonial Inn, and 
five grandchildren.
  Mr. Crowe was a lifelong farmer.  He was a member of Emmanuel Methodist 
Church, near Johnson's in Garrett County.
  Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in Mt. Zion M. E. Church, 
Rev. D. J. Combs of Grantsville, officiating.  Interment in the church cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, August 21, 1947