OBIT: Thelma Virginia (RANKING) DAVIES, 1986, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  THELMA V. DAVIES
  
    Thelma Virginia Davies, 70, Chestnut Ridge Road, Grantsville, Md., died 
  Saturday, Jan. 25, 1986, at West Virginia University Medical Center, Morgantown, 
  W. Va.
    Born Sept. 6, 1915, in Frostburg, Md., she was the daughter of the late 
  Clayton Rankin and Maggie Pearl (Chaney) Ranking.
    She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Frostburg.  She and her 
  husband owned and operated the Little Meadows Lake Foundation near Grantsville.
    She is survived by her husband, John E. Davies; two daughters, Mrs. Jean 
  Lindeman and Mrs. Judie Robinette, both of Grantsville; three sisters:  Mrs. 
  Beatrice Neder, Ellerslie, Md.; Mrs. Margaret Thomas, Hagerstown, Md.; and Miss 
  Shirley Rankin, Frostburg, Md.; three brothers:  James Rankin, Uniontown; 
  William Rankin, Frostburg, Md.; and Walter Rankin, Eckhart, Md.; five 
  grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
    Friends were received at the Durst Funeral Home, Frostburg, where services 
  were conducted Tuesday at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Richard Harris.
    Interment, Davies family cemetery, Little Meadows Lake.
    Pallbearers were Gary Robinette, Richard Bittinger, Albert Arnold, Darryll 
  Garrison, Dwayne Rankin and Gilbert L. Nicol.
  
  The Republic, January 30, 1986
  
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