OBIT: Eleanor (COLBORN) DELONG, 1975, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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  DELONG
  
    Mrs. Eleanor C. DeLong, 87, of E. Patriot St. Somerset, died June 28 in
  Somerset Community Hospital.  She was born Jan. 23, 1888, in Somerset and
  was a daughter of the late Louis C. and Mary Knable Colborn.  She was
  preceded in death by her husband, Howard H. who died in 1958, and by a
  sister, Mrs. Louise Mason and a brother, John A.  She is survived by three
  nephews and three nieces.  She was a member of the First Christian Church,
  Fortnightly Club, Past Regent of Forbes Chapter D.A.R.  She had served as
  organist for St. Paul's Reformed Church for 16 years and served as organist
  and choir director at the First Christian Church 24 1/2 years.  She had also
  taught piano lessons at her home.  Attended Wilson College and Mt. Pleasant
  Institute and has studied church music with Mable McKinley Baer for five
  years.  She was a graduate of Somerset High School, Class of 1905.  Friends
  will be received from 2-4 and 7-9 today (Monday) in the Richard E. Hauger
  Funeral Home where service will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m., Rev. Paul
  Weber officiating.  Interment, Union Cemetery.  A Musicale Memorial Fund is
  being established in memory of Mrs. DeLong.
  
  Somerset American  June 30, 1975
  
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