OBIT: Nellie M. (BOWDEN) DURST, 1997, Markleysburg, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed by Caroline Juker and proofread by Nancy S. Edwards. Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ DURST Nellie M. (Bowden) Durst, 92, Markleysburg, formerly of Boswell, died Feb. 28, 1997, at Uniontown Hospital. Born Jan. 24, 1905, in Johnstown, daughter of James and Mary (Johnson) Bowden. Preceded in death by parents; husband, Abe, in 1961; daughters, Kathryn Warnick and Thelma Rader; daughter-in-law, Dorothy Durst; sisters, Cora and Stella, and brothers, John and Andy. Survived by these children: Melda Shaffer, Fostoria, Ohio; Clarence, Addison; Robert, Boswell RD 1, and Wilma, wife of John Durst, Frostburg. Also survived by 20 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; two sons-in-law, Melvin Warnick, Somerset, and Raymond Rader, Fostoria, Ohio, and sister, Annis Noakes, Smithfield. Friends received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Hoffman Funeral Home, Allegheny Street, Boswell, where service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Rev. C.J. Iickes officiating. Interment, Beam Cemetery, near Gray. Daily American, March 3, 1997 [DO1100]