OBIT: Rev. Samuel E. LOBACH, 1973, Stoystown, Somerset County, PA
  
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  LOBACH
  
  Rev. Samuel E. Lobach, 80, of Stoystown, died March 5, 1973 in
  Somerset Community Hospital.  Born March 25, 1892 in Bethelehem, Pa.,
  son of Rev. Albert and Ada Breinig Lobach.  Preceded in death by
  parents, two brothers and three sisters.  Survived by wife, former
  Rosetta Platt and one son, Samuel E. Jr., of Hanover, Pa., three
  grandchildren, Bruce, Scott, Lynn Ann; two sisters, Miss Ada of
  Lancaster and Miss Catharine of Jenkintown.  He was a retired
  Evangelical and Reformed and United Church of Christ minister, having
  served over 50 years in the ministry at the following charges:  Pine
  Bun-Olive, Meyersdale Wilhelm, Waynesboro and Greensburg Third Church
  and Stoystown.  He was a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and
  Lancaster Theological Seminary.  He was a member of Stoystown Lions
  Club and Apollo F&AM Lodge 437.  Family will receive friends in the
  Charles R. Deaner Funeral Home, Stoystown 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
  Wednesday and until noon Thursday.  Remains will be removed to St.
  PaulAos United Church of Christ, Stoystown to lie in state from 1
  p.m. untile [sic] services at 2 p.m.  Rev. Paul L. Westcoat Jr. Penn
  West Conference minister, assisted by Rev. Richard H. Shellenberger
  and his pastor Rev. Leonard F. Zecchini officiating.  Interment Union
  Cemetery Somerset.  In lieu of flowers memorial contributions to Rev.
  S. E. Lobach Memorial Fund may be sent to Rev. Leonard Zecchini,
  Stoystown. 

  Daily American, 6 March 1973
  
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