OBIT: James B. HOUPT, 1975, Somerset RD, Somerset County, PA
  
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  HOUPT
  
  James B. Houpt, 74, Somerset RD 5, died Sept. 18, 1975, Somerset Community
  Hospital.  Born in Somerset, Oct. 4, 1900, the son of Earl and Ida (Yoder)
  Houpt.  Preceded in death by parents, two wives: Ethel Sechler and Etta
  Meyers, and one son, Jack.  Survived by two step-daughters, Mrs. June Petty
  of Magalia, Calif.; and Mrs. Rita Reilly of Pittsburgh; seven grandchildren
  and three great-grandchildren.  Also surviving are two sisters and one
  brother: Mrs. Elizabeth Luther, and Louise, wife of William R. Tressler,
  both of Somerset; and Dr. Earl O., Somerset RD 2.  Member of the First
  Christian Church, Somerset, veteran of World War I, and member and past
  master of Somerset Lodge 538, Free and Accepted Masons.  He was a retired
  painting contractor.  Friends will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday
  (today) in the Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home where services will be
  conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday with the Rev. Paul P. Weber officiating. 
  Interment, Somerset County Memorial Park.
  
  Somerset American, September 19, 1975
  
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