OBIT: Edna N. (EMERICK) LEISTER, 1993, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  LEISTER
  
    Edna N. Leister, 86, of Hyndman, formerly of Glencoe RD 1, died
  Friday, July 9, 1993, at Sacred Heart Hospital, Cumberland, Md.  She
  was born Sept. 16, 1906, at Glencoe.  A daughter of the late Jacob
  and Lydia (Martz) Emerick.  Also preceded in death by her husband
  James A. Leister, who died Dec. 18, 1980, and by seven brothers and
  three sisters.  Mrs. Leister was a homemaker and a member of the
  Fairhope Community Church.  She is survived by seven sons: Ernest and
  Ralph, both of Glencoe RD 1; Elwood of Bedford RD 7; Jacob of Aurora,
  Ohio; Fred of Berlin RD 1; Roy of Garrettsville, Ohio; and Stanley of
  Somerset; seven daughters, Marybell Kline of Corriganville, Md.; Helen
  Tomlinson of Manns Choice, Pa.; Hazel Tomlinson of Irvin, Pa.; Dolores
  Kline of Waynesboro, Pa.; Dotty Leister, at home; Kay Diehl of Bedford
  RD 4; and Thelma Hillegass of Schellsburg RD 1; 62 grandchildren, 90
  great-grandchildren and 6 great-great-grandchildren.  Also a brother
  Melvin Emerick of Corriganville, Md., and sister Nora Emerick of
  Glencoe RD 1.  Services will be held Sunday, July 11, at 2 p.m. at
  the Harvey H. Zeigler Funeral Home with Mrs. Leister's grandson, the
  Rev. Daniel Leister, officiating.  Interment, Mount Lebanon Cemetery,
  Glencoe.  Friends will be received at the funeral home Saturday from
  2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
  
  Daily American, July 10, 1993
  
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