OBIT: Emma Leola (Miller) MEESE, 2005, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
  
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  Meese, Emma Leola  07/12/05  Daily American
  
  Emma Leola Meese, 85, Salisbury, loving wife, mother, grandmother and
  great-grandmother, went to be with the Lord, July 11, 2005, at Meyersdale
  Medical Center, Meyersdale. Born Sept. 21, 1919, in Greenville Township, she is
  the daughter of the late Harvey and Belinda (Bare) Miller. She was the last
  surviving member of her large immediate family. She is also preceded in death
  by brothers, George, Carl, Harvey, Elbert and Ray Miller and sisters, Alma
  Dietle, Edith Shultz, Maggie Williams, Mildred Dietle, Gladys Pope, Agnes
  Schrock and Ethel Miller and granddaughter, Christina Smith. Surviving are her
  husband of 59 years, John D. Meese; children, Shirley Smith, married to James
  D. Smith Jr., LaVale, Md.; and David Meese, married to the former Joyce Bender,
  Berlin; grandchildren, Kelli Smith, Amy Smith, James Smith III, Greta Meese,
  Benjamin Meese and Ella Meese; great grandsons, Zachary Wagoner, Jacob Dent and
  James Bennett Jr. Emma worked with her husband on the farm. She also worked five
  years at Meyersdale Manufacturing Co. and cared for her family, including her
  mother-in-law to her age 96. She was a lifelong member of Greenville
  Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Ladies Aid. Friends will be received 2 to 4
  and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Newman Funeral Home Inc., 9168 Mason-Dixon Highway,
  Salisbury. A service will be conducted 11 a.m. Thursday at Greenville Lutheran
  Church. The Rev. David E. Fetter officiating. Friends may call at the church
  one hour prior to the service. Interment, Greenville Cemetery. Expressions of
  sympathy may be directed to Greenville Lutheran Church Memorial Fund.
  Condolences may be sent to the family at www.newmanfuneralhomes.com