OBIT:  Marion Stauffer (BERKEBILE) DOYLE, 1974, Hooversville, Somerset County, PA
  
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  Mrs. Marion Stauffer Doyle, who was known as the "poet laureate of Somerset
  County," died Sunday at the age of 75 at Memorial Hospital, Johnstown.
  
  Mrs. Doyle won numerous awards for her poetry, which was published in The
  New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, McCall's, the Saturday Evening Post
  and Good Housekeeping, among other publications.
  
  She began writing poetry during high school.  More than 2,000 of her
  articles, short stories, poems and verses were published in numerous
  newspapers, magazines, anthologies and textbooks.
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  Mrs. Marion Stauffer, 75, Hooversville, died June 23, 1974, at Memorial
  Hospital, Johnstown.  Born Oct. 16, 1898, in Lambertsville, daughter of
  late James and Sadie (Stauffer) Berkebile.  Also preceded in death by two
  half brothers.  Survived by husband, Fred, and brother, Fred D. Berkebile,
  Huntingdon.  No viewing.  Private service, the Rev. Russell Lundgren.  Omit
  flowers.  Contributions may be made to favorite charity.  Arrangements by
  Thomas P. Read Funeral Home.
  
  Johnstown Tribune, June 23, 1974
  
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