OBIT: Shirley Elaine (MERKEL) EMERICK, 2002, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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  EMERICK
  
    Shirley Elaine Emerick, 67, of Comps Road, Hyndman, died Nov. 6, 2002 in
  the University of Maryland Medical Center Shock Trauma Unit, Baltimore, Md.
  Born July 26, 1935 in Fairhope, the daughter of the late George and Hulda
  (Richardson) Merkel.  Also preceded in death by five brothers, Lee, Don,
  Daris, Dewey and, Harry Merkel, and four sisters, Doris and Beverly Merkel,
  Jean Deitz and Helen Nair. Survived by: Vernon C. Emerick, her husband of 50
  years, whom she married Sept. 15, 1952; four daughters: Linda K. and husband
  Roy W. Kennell, Hyndman, Debra A. and husband John I. Weimer, Berlin, Nancy
  L. and husband Lenny Emerick, Hyndman, and Kathy S. and husband Henry
  Logsdon, Hyndman; one brother, Victor Merkel, Cumberland, Md.; two sisters
  Alma Custer and Betty Huffman, both of Hyndman; 10 grandchildren: Ammie,
  Sherry and Jeremiah Weimer, Crissy and Aaron Emerick, Paul and Nathan
  Kennell, and Misty, Amanda and Shawn Logsdon; five great-grandchildren:
  Nathanial and Shainna McKenzie, Kyle Keller, Katlyn Ludy and Shauntae
  Logsdon; and numerous special nieces and nephews.  Also by Robert Custer and
  Donna Landis, whose services to Mrs. Emerick and her family have meant more
  than words can tell.  Mrs. Emerick, a homemaker, was a devoted wife and
  mother.  She was a longtime school van driver.  She served Southampton
  Township, Somerset County as an election official for a number of years.
  She enjoyed hunting, fishing, sewing, crafts and cross-stitch. 
    Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the
  Harvey H Zeigler Funeral Home, 169 Clarence Street. Hyndman.  Funeral
  services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, at the Apostolic Church of
  Jesus Christ, Kennels Mill Road, Hyndman.  The Rev. Henry Crissinger
  officiating.  Interment Comps Cemetery, Hyndman, grandsons will serve as
  pallbearers.
  
  Daily American, Nov. 9, 2002
  

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