OBIT:  Dortheia A. (MILLER) GEARHART, 2000, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  GEARHART
  
    Dortheia A. Gearhart, 71, of Acme RD 3, died Oct. 6, 2000 in the
  Hempfield Manor, Hempfield Township.  She was born April 19, 1929 in Acme. A
  daughter of the late John Henry and Mary Belle Stillwagon Miller.  In
  addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Gerald "Jake"
  Gearhart in 1993, and two brothers, Walter and Harry Miller.  She is
  survived by two sons, Harold Gearhart and his wife Janet of Acme and Jerry
  Gearhart and his wife Diane of Acme; daughter Shelva Hauer and her husband
  Charles of Salisbury, six grandchildren, Troy Hauer and his wife Dorothy,
  John Hauer, Leona Hauer, Sarah Kerns, and her husband Jeremiah, Hannah
  Gearhart and Jerold Gearhart; two step-grandchildren, John Brant and Jason
  Brant and his wife Jill; one great-grandchild, Allison Hauer; three
  step-great-grandchildren, Nicholas Welch, Miles Brant and Sadie Brant, and
  two sisters, Myrtle Keslar of Mount Pleasant and Shirley Fisher and her
  husband Louis of Rockwood.  Mrs. Gearhart was a retired custodian for the
  Connellsville Area School District working at the Pritts and Springfield
  Township Elementary Schools.  She was a charter member of the Saltlick
  Township Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, member of the Chestnut Ridge
  Lionness Club, the Order of Eastern Star, Scottdale, the Order of the
  Amaranth of Mount Pleasant and Mountain Watershed Association.  Also a
  member of the Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Donegal, where she was
  a member of the L.C.W. and was in charge of the church kitchen for many
  years.  Friends received from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 9 p.m.
  Sunday in the Clyde Brooks Funeral Home Inc., Route 711 Melcroft.  A prayer
  service will be held at 12:30 p.m. Monday in the funeral home  followed by
  funeral service at 1 p.m. in the Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in
  Donegal, with the Rev. Edward M. Miller Jr. and Rev. David E. Fetters
  co-officiating.  Interment will follow in the Brown Cemetery, Saltlick
  Township.
  
  Somerset Daily American, October 7, 2000.
  
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