OBIT: Francis HOSKEN, 1993, Somerset RD, Somerset County, PA
  
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  HOSKEN
  
    Francis Hosken 88, Somerset RD 5, died Nov 20, 1993 in Meyersdale
  Hospital.  Born Feb. 18, 1905 in Meyersdale, son of the late John W. and
  Victoria (Harding) Hosken.  Preceded in death by parents, sisters Cora
  Sechler and Orpha Baker and infant brother Walter.  Survived by wife,
  Estella (Maust) Hosken; one daughter, Geneviene Klepack, Johnstown; two
  grandchildren, Bruce Klepack, Johnstown and Barbara Long, Elizabethtown;
  two great-grandchildren; and one brother, Charles Hosken, Berlin.  Retired
  from Mobile Oil Co., Johnstown.  Death ends a marriage union of 65 years. 
  An avid duckpin bowler during 1940 through 50's in Johnstown.  Bowled at
  the Capital and State Bowling centers in Johnstown.  Friends received from
  2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday in Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home where service
  will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.  Rev. Henry Landis of Mt.
  Pleasant officiating.  Interment, Somerset County Memorial Park.
  
  Daily American, November 22, 1993
  
  [H-1634]