OBIT: Sarah A. (Engleka) KEEFER, 1932, formerly of Somerset County, PA 

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SARAH A. KEEFER

  Mrs. Sarah A. Keefer, aged 61, widow of Simon Keefer, died Monday afternoon in 
the Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, Md., following an illness of several weeks.  
She formerly resided in Northampton Township, but had been making her home with 
her daughter, Mrs. Grace Lockard, of Cumberland, for the last few months.  She 
was a daughter of Louis and Elizabeth Engleka, both deceased.  
  Surviving are these children:  Howard Keefer, of Confluence; Mrs. Nora 
Matthews, of Oakland, Cal.; M. J. Keefer, of Flint, Mich., and Mrs. Grace 
Lockard, mentioned above.  The body was removed on Tuesday by J. N. Johnson & 
Son, Berlin morticians, to the home of her brother, Ralph Engleka, of East 
Berlin.
  Funeral services were conducted there Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, in 
charge of Rev. Skyles, pastor of the Cumberland Reformed Church, followed by 
burial in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Berlin.

Meyersdale Republican, November 17, 1932

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SARAH KEEFER

  Sarah Engleka Keefer, born in Allegheny Township, February 23, 1871, died 
November 13, 1932, in the Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, Md., after an illness 
of almost one year.  
  Sarah Engleka married Simon Keefer, March 31, 1891.  Mr. Keefer died Nov. 13, 
1925.  Mrs. Keefer is survived by the following children:  Howard Keefer, 
Confluence; Mrs. Nora Matthews, Oakland, Cal.; Millard F. Keefer, Flint, Mich.; 
Mrs. Grace Lockard, Cumberland, Md.; also by two brothers and one sister and her 
mother, who was 83 years old on the day Mrs. Keefer was buried.  She is also 
survived by ten grandchildren.
  Mrs. Keefer joined the Mt. Lebanon Reformed Church when a young woman.  
Funeral services conducted by Rev. Gindlesperger, assisted by Rev. Skyles of 
Cumberland.  Interment in the Berlin I.O.O.F. Cemetery.  The pall-bearers were 
Hon. J. B. Schrock, Allen Miller, W. S. Lane, Herman Ream, Fred Groff and W. S. 
Baldwin.

Meyersdale Republican, November 24, 1932