OBIT: Violet Marie (STRICKLER) KOBA, 1987, Jenner Township, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed by Kerry L. Miller. Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ KOBA Violet Marie Koba, 56, Acosta, died July 13, 1987, in Jenner Township. Born April 16, 1931, in Jenner Township, daughter of the late George A. and Neva V. (Blair) Strickler, Acosta. Preceded in death by father and one son, Carey. She is survived by these children: Glen Kimmel, Randall Koba, Patricia Joyner, all of Boswell; Terrance, and Virginia Matkoskey, both of Acosta; six grandchildren; one great-grandchild. Sister of George Strickler, Jr., Pittsburgh; and Robert Strickler, Nora Springs, Iowa. Employee of Gilmour Manufacturing Company. Friends will be received from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday and 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home. Funeral services Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, Boswell, Pastor Patricia Ramsay officiating. Interment, Beam's Cemetery. Body will lie in state at the church from 9:30 a.m. until the hour of service. Daily American, July 14, 1987 [K0967]