OBIT: Verdamae (KIMMEL) HEIST, 1999, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
  
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  HEIST
  
    Verdamae Heist, 89, Somerset, died June 6, 1999, at Somerset Hospital. 
  Born June 18, 1908, in Lincoln Township.  Daughter of the late William
  Elmer and Nora Ida (Shaulis) Kimmel.  Also preceded in death by husband,
  James Samuel Heist, who died Feb. 2, 1995; brothers, James M., Harry E. and
  Clyde H. Kimmel, and sisters Olive Williams, Minnie Pritts and Anna
  Baldwin.  Survived by these children: Mrs. Harold W. (Germaine) Ankeny of
  Somerset, William L. Heist, married to the former Mary Maurer of Nampa,
  Idaho, and James G. Heist, Portland, Ore.; also 10 grandchildren; 25
  great-grandchildren and number of nieces and nephews.  Member of Christ
  Casebeer Evangelical Lutheran Church and its WELCA.  1928 graduate of
  Somerset High School.  Also member of the former Wimodausis Rebekah Lodge,
  auxiliary to Three Rivers Chapter of Submarine Veterans of World War II. 
  Secretary for Somerset State Hospital, retiring in 1975.  Friends received
  from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Hauger-Zeigler Funeral Home. 
  Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday at Christ Casebeer
  Evangelical Lutheran Church, Somerset, with the Rev. Edward N. Corneilson
  officiating.  Viewing at church from 10 a.m. until time of service. 
  Interment, Casebeer Cemetery.  Contributions may be made to Christ Casebeer
  Memorial Reserve Fund, 10377 Somerset Pike, Somerset, Pa. 15501.
  
  Daily American, June 8, 1999
  
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