OBIT: Bessie L. (LOHR) GRAY, 1993, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  GRAY
  
    Bessie L. Gray, 68, of Three Springs, Pa., died Nov. 20, 1993, at home. 
  Born Nov. 25, 1924, in Jenner Township.  Daughter of the late Richard F.
  And Elsie (Bowman) Lohr.  Also preceded in death by three sisters, Evelyn
  Friedline, Nannie Cora Rhodes and Sarah Shaffer.  Survived by husband G.
  Franklin Gray Jr., whom she married on Aug. 18, 1946; children Lavan M.
  Gray, Berryville, Va.; Cornelius T. Gray, Lewistown, Pa.; Nellie Gray
  Cloninger, Hendersonville, S.C.; and Waldo R. Gray, Yeagertown, Pa.; nine
  grandchildren, one great-granddaughter.  Also brothers Louis Lohr, New
  Paris RD, Pa.; Lloyd H. Lohr, Stoystown; and David Lohr, Shanksville. 
  Member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church, Shade Gap, Pa., United
  Methodist Women, past Sunday school teacher, former youth leader, treasurer
  at Chambersburg District of Minister's Mates of the United Methodist
  Church.  Homemaker and had been employed at Kurtz Bros.  School Supplies,
  Clearfield.  Friends will be received at Martin R. Brown Funeral Home,
  Orbisonia, Pa., from 7-9 p.m. Monday and at the church one hour prior to
  funeral service at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Zion Hoffman Evangelical Church,
  Friedens RD 1, with Pastor Michael Tamorria.  Interment, Hoffman Cemetery,
  Friedens RD 1.  There will also be a memorial service at Center United
  Methodist Church, RD, Waterfall, Pa., at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
  
  Daily American, November 22, 1993
  
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