OBIT: John Jerdan "Jerry" LAVAN, 2004, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
  
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  JOHN JERDAN "JERRY" LAVAN
  
  John Jerdan "Jerry" Lavan, 85, Somerset, went to join his loving wife, May
  15, 2004, at Somerset Hospital.  Born Feb. 24, 1919, in Jefferson Township,
  a son of John Wesley and Margaret Ellen (Uphouse) Lavan.  Preceded in death
  by parents; wife, the former Sarah Manerva Trent, who died Feb. 15, 1997;
  sisters, Olive Crise and Martha Brant; brothers, F. Harry Lavan, Kenneth
  Lester Lavan and Jacob Roy Lavan.  Survived by daughter, Mrs. Roger D.
  (Margaret "Peggy") Hay, Somerset, and grandson, John W. "J.W." Hay.  Member
  of Mt. Zion Lutheran Church in Bakersville.  U.S. Army veteran of World War
  II.  Was a partner in the Lavan Brothers Farm.  Also retired as a job
  superintendent for 5R Excavating Company in New Florence.  Member of Local
  1058 Laborers' International Union of North America.  Life member of FOE
  Aerie 1801, American Legion Post 941 in Donegal Township for 58 years, and
  VFW Post 554.  He will be sadly missed by his friends at Laurel Mountain
  Inn.  Friends received 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Hauger-Zeigler
  Funeral Home, Somerset, where service will be conducted at 10 a.m.
  Tuesday.  The Rev. Elisa A. Osman officiating.  Interment, Lavansville
  Lutheran Cemetery.  Military graveside rites accorded by the Somerset
  County Honor Guard.
  
  Daily American, May 17, 2004