OBIT: Ida B. (PLETCHER) KALP, 1973, native of Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed by Kerry L. Miller. Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ KALP Mrs. Ida B. Kalp, 79, of Mt. Pleasant RD 4, died Feb. 20, 1973. Born Aug. 18, 1893, in Scullton, a daughter of the late Irvin and Lindy (Geary) Pletcher. She was a member of the Mt. Joy Church of the Brethren. She is survived by two children: Mrs. W. Dwight (Ruth) Lohr of Mt. Pleasant, and Lester Kalp of Buffalo, N.Y.; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Ben (Ann) McCoy of Lamberton; two brothers, William Pletcher of Willow Street, Pa. and John Pletcher, Greensburg, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry Edward Kalp, in 1968. Friends are being received at the Eugene G. Saloom Funeral Home, Mt. Pleasant, where services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday by her pastor, the Rev. John M. Geary, assisted by the Rev. H. Wayne Beam. Interment, Calvary Cemetery, Salt Lick Township. Daily American, 23 February 1973 [K0039]