OBIT:  Iva Savilla (MILLER) DOYLE, 2002, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA
  
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    Iva Savilla Doyle, 74, of 257 Kretchman Farm Road, Meyersdale, died Oct.
  16, 2002 at Meyersdale.  Born Oct. 7, 1928 in Grantsville, Md. a daughter
  of the late Floyd J. and Fannie J. (Maust) Miller.  She was preceded in
  death by one brother, Jacob and one sister, Mary.  She is survived by her
  husband, Clarence Grady Doyle;  six children, Rebecca, wife of Gary Spiker,
  Meyersdale, John and wife, Norma Jean, Springs, Pa., Miriam (Mim), wife of
  Stanley Housel, Salisbury, Floyd and wife, Teresa, Meyersdale, Barbara,
  wife of Jeff Law McHenry, Md., James and wife, Julie, Meyersdale;  one
  foster son, Tom Freese, Indianapolis, Ind.;  14 grandchildren, Chris Caton,
  Butler, Lonny Doyle and wife, Jessica, Pasadena, Md., Jeremy Doyle,
  Meyersdale, Matthew Doyle, Fort Riley, Kan., Adam Spiker, Meyersdale, Kenny
  Housel, Salisbury, Jessica Spiker, Meyersdale, Patrick Doyle, Springs, Jamie
  and Jenny Doyle, Meyersdale, Stephanie and J.P. Law, McHenry, Michael and
  Lindsay Doyle, Meyersdale;  four brothers, Daniel, Meyersdale, her twin,
  Ivan Del., Lewis, Accident, Md., Allen Grantsville, Md;  three sisters,
  Barbara Miller, Del., Katharine Miller and Fannie Miriam Miller, both of
  Grantsville, Md.;  her stepmother, Fannie (Bender) Miller Zook,
  Grantsville, Md.; six half sisters, Ida Marie Miller, Ontario, Loretta
  Burkey, Neb., Rhoda Keefer, Oakland, Alice Orendort, Accident, Gertrude
  Slabach, Virginia, Rachel Miller, Grantsville, Md. and 62 nieces and
  nephews.  Iva was raised in Grantsville and was 14 when her mother passed
  away.  She helped raise her seven younger brothers and sisters until she
  moved to Vassar, Michigan at the age of 21.  She married and had six
  children.  In 1972, she moved with her husband and children to
  Meyersdale.  Iva was a devoted wife and loving mother, celebrating 48 years
  of marriage last December.  She loved spending time with her family and
  grandchildren.  She loved all children, and her home was always open to
  them.  She and her husband helped several teenagers through difficult times
  and many of them resided with the family for various lengths of time.  She
  was an active member of the Summit Mills Grace Brethren Church.  She was
  also a member of both the Appalachian Wagon Train Association and the
  Mountaintop Wagon Train Association.  She enjoyed oil painting, sewing and
  crafts, traveling and collecting hummingbirds and thimbles.  She will be
  missed tremendously by her family and friends, but will be remembered for
  her positive attitude, for helping others, for her devotion to her family
  and for her loving heart and warm smile.  Friends will be received from 7
  to 9 p.m. Thursday and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Newman
  Funeral Homes, P.A., 179 Miller Street, Grantsville, Md.  Services will be
  conducted at the funeral home, Saturday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Albert
  Valentine II officiating.  Interment will be in the Oak Dale Cemetery. 
  Expressions of sympathy may be directed to Summit Mills Grace Brethren
  Church.
  
  Daily American, October 17, 2002
  
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