OBIT: Joseph "Joe" LAFFERTY, 1980, Somerset RD, Somerset County, PA
  
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  JOSEPH LAFFERTY
  
    Joseph (Joe) Lafferty, 62, Somerset RD 5, died Feb. 8, 1980, at
  home.
    He was born July 24, 1917, in Somerset Township, son of the late
  Franklin and Gertrude (Burkhart) Lafferty.  He was preceded in death
  by his parents, four sisters, and two brothers.
    Survived by his wife, Evelyn (Bockes); and these children: Martha
  Jane, wife of Kenneth Yoder, Somerset RD 1; Doris, wife of Richard S.
  Baker, Somerset RD 5; Judy, wife of Phillip Wagner, Harrisburg; and
  Gail, wife of Robert Mitchell, Jennerstown; 12 grandchildren; 1
  great-grandchild; and two sisters: Ruth Gashaw, Mt. Union; and Hazel
  Smith, Berlin.
    He was a life-long member of First United Methodist Church in
  Somerset.  He was a retired self-employed trucker, and retired school
  bus driver.
    Friends were received at the Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home. 
  Funeral services were conducted at the First United Methodist Church,
  with the Rev. John C. Cox officiating.  Interment, St. John's Cemetery.
  
  The Republic, February 14, 1980
  
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