OBIT: David Clair HIGGINS, 1984, native of Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Richard Boyer Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ DAVID CLAIR HIGGINS Sgt. David Clair Higgins, 24, Quantico, Va., formerly of Somerset, died March 23, 1984, as result of helicopter crash in Seoul, South Korea. Born May 27, 1959, in Somerset, son of Mrs. Violet Shaffer, Somerset, and late Donald C. Higgins. Joined Marine Corps August 1977. Went to South Korea in December 1983. Graduate of Somerset High School, Class of 1977. Survived by wife, former Nancy Meyer, and two daughters, Erin and Angela. Also survived by two brothers, Donald Higgins, Michigan, and Douglas Higgins, Somerset; and step-brother, Richard Shaffer, Florida. Funeral arrangements incomplete in charge of Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home. Somerset Daily American, March 26, 1984 [H1043] DAVID C. HIGGINS A Funeral Mass for Marine Sgt. David C. Higgins will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. in St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Father Ray Nolan, officiating. Interment, Somerset County Memorial Park, with full military rites. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home. Somerset Daily American, April 3, 1984 [H1044]