OBIT: Minnie S. (POPE) MERRILL, 1990, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  MINNIE S. MERRILL
  
    Minnie S. Merrill, 98, a resident of Star Route, Frostburg, MD, and
  formerly of Avilton, MD, died Tuesday, Aug. 14, 1990, at the Frostburg
  Community Hospital, MD.
    Born July 24, 1892, at Sutton, MD, she was a daughter of the late
  David M. and Elizabeth (Bonig) Pope.
    She was preceded in death by her husband, Jesse C. Merrill, on
  March 4, 1972.  Also preceding her in death were one son, one
  grandson and one granddaughter.
    She was a member of the Cherry Grove Church of the Brethren for 75
  years where she had been a deaconess and a member of the CBWF.  She
  was a resident of the Goodwill Mennonite Home in Grantsville, MD, for
  seven and one half years prior to her death and was the last surviving
  member of her immediate family.
    Surviving are one son, William H. Merrill, Grantsville, MD, two
  daughters, Mary D. Durst, Frostburg, MD; June Shill, Arleta, Calif.;
  nine grandchildren, 21 great grandchildren and five great great
  grandchildren.
    Friends were received at the Newman Funeral Home, Grantsville,
  Md.  Funeral services were conducted Thursday at 1 p.m. at Cherry
  Grove Church of the Brethren by the Rev. Steven Durr and Rev. Earl
  Harper.
    Interment, Grantsville Cemetery.
    Pallbearers were grandsons, Glenn Allen Durst, Lowell T. Merrill,
  Donald Lancaster, Leo Conway, Jesse Merrill and Jason Merrill. 
  Honorary pallbearers were Harry Pope, Scott Pope, Wilfred Crowe,
  Ralph Fike and Floyd Ellinger.
  
  The Republic, August 23, 1990
  
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