OBIT: George Earl HAY, 2007, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
  
  Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library
  Transcribed and proofread by Barry and Betty Christy.
  jhurl@meyersdalelibrary.org
  
  Copyright 2010. All rights reserved.
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/
  ----------------------------------------------- 
  
  HAY, George Earl  12/13/07   Daily American
  
    George Earl Hay, 91, Somerset, went to be with the Lord Dec. 12, 2007, at Somerset
  Hospital. Born March 26, 1916, Quecreek, son of John Earl and Hattie Matilda (Tipton)
  Hay. Preceded in death by parents; and sister, Bernice Dixon. Survived by wife, the
  former Emma Shafer, to whom he was married 69 years;  daughter, Emma Lou Keene, Indiana;
  granddaughters, Deborah Walker and husband, Christopher, Dayton, Ohio; Elizabeth McCloud
  and husband, Jeffrey, Elizabethtown; great-grandsons, Nathaniel and Maxwell McCloud; and
  sister, Alice "Kitty" Stutzman, Levittown. George was a 1934 graduate of Somerset High
  School, a graduate of Ross Leffler School of Conservation, received a BS degree in
  education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he was also inducted into the
  Football Hall of Fame in 2000 and a Master's Degree in guidance counseling from Penn
  State University. He spent four years in the Navy during World War II, He was a member of
  the VFW. He was an ardent trapper and outdoorsman and spent 10 years as a game protector
  with the PA Game Commission, and was one of Pennsylvania's top 10trappers. Also a member
  of Lodge 674 F&AM in Coraopolis. He worked as a guidance counselor for North Star High
  School retiring in 1984. He was a member of St.Paul's Presbyterian Church where he served
  on the session. Friends received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Hauger-Zeigler
  Funeral Home, Somerset. A service will be conducted 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul's
  Presbyterian Church, Somerset. The Rev. Keith M. Fink and the Rev. Roger Forry
  officiating. Interment Casebeer Cemetery. Contributions may be made to St. Paul's
  Presbyterian, 132 E. Union St., Somerset, PA 15501 or Somerset "In Touch" Hospice, 223 S.
  Pleasant Ave., Somerset, PA 15501. Military rites accorded by the Somerset County Honor
  Guard. www.haugerzeigler.com