OBIT: Marie A. (BARKMAN) LOWRY, 1988, Shanksville RD, Somerset County, PA
  
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  LOWRY
  
  Marie A. Lowry, 79, Shanksville RD 2, died May 19, 1988, at Somerset
  Community Hospital.  Born Aug. 9, 1908, in Somerset Township,
  daughter of the late George Russell and Estella Elizabeth (Stoston)
  Barkman.  Also preceded in death by a brother, George, and a sister,
  Leora.  Survived by her husband, Milton H., and these children: Mrs.
  Robert (Joyce) Sarver, East McKeesport; Wayne, married to the former
  Audrey McClaren, Somerset RD 2; Lee, married to the former Carolyn
  Miller, State College; and foster daughter, Mrs. Carl (Nadine)
  Bumbarger, Somerset RD 3; also nine grandchildren and five
  great-grandchildren.  Sister of: Harold, Arizona; Robert, Baltimore,
  Md.; Edgar, Shanksville; Elsie Shuster, Friedens; Ruth Fisher,
  Somerset; and Victoria Walker, Berlin.  Member of St. Mark's Lutheran
  Church, Shanksville.  Her death ends a marriage of 58 years.  She was
  a former school bus driver and LPN at Somerset Community Hospital and
  Maple Mountain Manor.  She was a past president of the Shanksville
  Fire Department Auxiliary and the Somerset County Fire Department
  Auxiliary.  Member of the Berlin Rebekah Lodge, Trinity Chapter of
  the O.E.S., Berlin American Legion Auxiliary #554, Farm Women, Silver
  and Gold Senior Citizens of Shanksville and was the volunteer nurse
  for the Girl Scout Camp.  Friends received 7-9 p.m. Friday and 2-4
  and 7-9 p.m. Saturday at the Hauger-Zeigler Funeral Home, where
  services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m., with the Rev. Horst H.
  Bandle officiating.  Interment, Somerset County Memorial Park.
  
  Daily American, May 20, 1988
  
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