OBIT: Willard B. LEASE, 1981, Friedens RD, Somerset County, PA
  
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  WILLARD B. LEASE
  
    Willard B. Lease, 88, Friedens RD 2, died Nov. 10, 1981, at
  Somerset Community Hospital.
    He was born Jan. 20, 1893, in Stonycreek Township, son of Minnie
  (Lease) Long.
    He was preceded in death by mother; first wife, former Edna Rhoads;
  and half-sister, Verda Long; also infant grandson.
    He is survived by widow, former Miriam Peck; children: Edith, widow
  of Floyd Hoffman, Berlin; Mrs. Donald (Elaine) Pyle and Elvin, both of
  Friedens; and Mrs. William (Arlene) Cassady, Scottsdale, Ariz.; and
  half-sisters and half-brother, Alma Long, Bessie Long, and J. Chester
  Long, all of Friedens, and Nancy Pfhrogner, State of Indiana; also 11
  grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
    He was an army veteran of World War I; life-long member of Friedens
  Lutheran Church; member of Stoystown Lions Club; Labor Union Local 419
  and Somerset VFW.
    Friends were received at the Deaner Funeral Home, Stoystown. 
  Services were held at Friedens Lutheran Church, with the Rev. James
  R. Ling.  Interment, church cemetery.
  
  The Republic, November 19, 1981
  
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