OBIT: Sharon (FLICK) KOONTZ, 1981, native of Somerset, Somerset County, PA
  
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    Funeral services for a former Somerset RD 5 woman will be held
  Sept. 22, at the Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home.  The body of
  Sharon Koontz, 30, the mother of two, was found in the trunk of her
  family car in Phoenix, Ariz., where she resided.
    Mrs. Koontz's husband, Jack, 34, is formerly from Confluence.  They
  had moved to Arizona approximately nine years ago.
    According to reports, a missing persons report had been filed on
  Mrs. Koontz early last Friday when she failed to come home the
  evening before.  She was employed as a secretary for Ross
  Construction Co., Phoenix, and had dined with a friend on that
  evening.  After taking her friend back to her motel it is reported
  she was returning home.
  
  Vehicle Located
  
    A church caretaker discovered the vehicle at 6:30 a.m. Saturday in
  the Northwest Community Christian Church parking area, Phoenix.  The
  caretaker phoned Jack Koontz and upon his arrival at the scene he
  discovered his wife's body in the trunk.  Results of the autopsy have
  not been released as yet, but it is suspected she was strangled.
    Sharon died Sept. 19, 1981, at Phoenix.  She was born Oct. 31, 1950
  in Somerset, a daughter of Anna Margaret (Watkins) Flick of Somerset
  RD 5, and the late Charles J. Flick.  She is survived by her husband,
  Jack Koontz, two children Shelly and J.J., in Phoenix; mother; and
  these brothers and sisters: Mrs. Bonnie Irwin, Somerset; Mrs. Joyce
  Swift, and Charles J. Jr., both of Berlin; and Ricky Flick,
  Friedens.  She was a member of First Christian Church, Somerset. 
  Services will be held today with the Rev. Eugene Selle[ ]
  officiating.  Interment, Bakersville Cemetery. 
  
  The Republic, September 24, 1981
  
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