OBIT: Margaret "Maggie" (MAURER) GILBERT, 1975, Boswell RD, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed by Nancy Lorz. Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ GILBERT Mrs. Margaret (Maggie) Gilbert, 73, Boswell RD 2, died March 26, 1975, in Tarentum Valley Hospital. Born in Somerset County, Aug. 12, 1901, a daughter of Wilson and Clara Shaulis Maurer. Preceded in death by husband, A. W. (Jack) Gilbert; two grandsons; one great-grandson; a half-brother and a half-sister. She is survived by these children: James, Gray; Mrs. Opal Yorkony, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Grant and Mrs. Emily Harkcom, both of Somerset; Mrs. Virginia Swank, Friedens RD 1; Mrs. Fae Baker, Southgate, Mich.; Mrs. Idella Manges, Somerset RD 2; Mrs. Helen Fye, Listie; Mrs. Alma Bittner, Jenners; and Dwight, Jennerstown; 28 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and one brother Harry Maurer, Orlando, Fla. She was a member of Christian Missionary and Alliance Church, Gray, the Missionary Prayer Circle and the Laurel Mountain Senior Citizens. Friends will be received after 7 p.m. today, Friday, in Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home. Funeral services Sunday, 2 p.m., in Mt. Laurel Church of Christ, the Rev. Max DeArmey and the Rev. Donald K. Ansell officiating. Interment church cemetery. The body will be removed to the church Sunday to lie in state from 1 p.m. until time of service. Meyersdale Republic, March 28, 1975 [G0396]