OBIT: Sara Roberta (MARTEN) GETTY, 1973, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
  
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  SARA ROBERTA GETTY
  
    Mrs. Sara Roberta Getty, 92, Somerset, newspaperwoman for nearly half a
  century, died Jan. 12, 1972, in Allegheny Lutheran Home, Johnstown.
    She began her career as woman's editor of the Cumberland (Md.) Daily News
  and worked there from 1924 to 1942.  Since then she spent 30 years as a
  feature writer, reporter and columnist for the Somerset Daily American. She
  was also the author of four books of poetry.
    A member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Somerset; she was also a member of
  the National League of American Pen Women, Somerset Business and
  Professional Women's Club, the Garden Club, Somerset Welfare League, the
  Crippled Children's Society and was a past member of the board of directors
  of the Somerset County Cancer Society.
    Born in Wellersburg, she was a daughter of the late Joachim C. and Ellen
  Jane (Martin) Marten.  She was also preceded in death by her husband,
  Charles B. Getty, formerly of Grantsville; infant twin sons, a grandson and
  two sisters.
    Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. E. H. Reppert, Bridgeport, W. Va.; Mrs.
  E. E. Criswell, Clarksburg, W. Va.; five grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs.
  Flora Winebrenner, Mt. Savage, Md.
    Funeral service was conducted Monday morning in Richard E. Hauger Funeral
  Home, Somerset, with Rev. George Bowersox officiating.  Interment in
  Frostburg Memorial Park, Frostburg, Md.
  
  Meyersdale Republican, January 18, 1973
  
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