OBIT: Pearl (YOUNKIN) FIRESTONE, 1978, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  PEARL FIRESTONE
  
    Pearl Firestone, 94, of Latrobe and formerly of Mather, Pa., died Sept.
  10, 1978.
    She was born July 18, 1884 in Somerset County, a daughter of the late
  Irvin and Alice (Phillippi) Younkin.
    She is survived by four daughters: Mrs. Orpha Hostetler of Mather; Mrs.
  Vida Sipe of Ursina; Mrs. Rhuie Lynch and Mrs. Kathryn Gerhart, both of
  Latrobe; 42 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and one brother, Harry
  Younkin of Owensdale, Pa.
    She was a charter member of the Confluence Rebecca Lodge; a member of the
  D of A of Waynesburg; and the Old Bethel Church of God at Hexabarger.
    Friends were received at the Humbert Funeral Home in Confluence where
  services were held with the Rev. Kempton Oaks officiating.  Interment,
  Jersey Cemetery.
  
  The Republic, September 14, 1978*
  
  [F0323]
  
  *Last two numbers missing on obit, went by death date in the obit