OBIT: Clara (STRATTAN) GOSS, 1948, formerly of Somerset County, PA 

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CLARA GOSS

  Funeral services were held Monday, September 13, for a brother and sister who 
died within two hours of each other.  They were both former Meyersdale and 
Garrett residents.
  Mrs. Clara Goss, aged 70, died September 10 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
Alberta Clark, in Ellwood City.  Her brother, Richard Thompson Strattan, died 
two hours earlier at his home in Hardysville.  Both had been ill for some time.
  Both Mrs. Goss and Mr. Strattan were the children of the late Albert and Mary 
Crow Strattan.  The Strattan family was well known in and around Meyersdale in 
the early 1900's.
  Mrs. Goss was born October 7, 1877, and spent her earlier years in Meyersdale.  
She was married in 1900 to the late A. J. Goss, who operated a market in Garrett 
and, at one time, owned a livery stable there.  About 1912, she moved to Ellwood 
City, where she and Mr. Goss reared their family.  
  Surviving are her daughter, Mrs. Alberta Clark; a son, Hobert Goss; a sister, 
Mrs. Carrie Kimmel of Poland, O., and six grandchildren.  Funeral services were 
held at the I. J. Porter Funeral Home with interment in the Locust Grove 
cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, September 23, 1948