OBIT: Valerie A. (BROUGHER) MURRAY, 1996, Jennerstown, Somerset County, PA
  
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  MURRAY
  
    Valerie A. (Brougher) Murray, 45, Jennerstown, died Nov. 13, 1996,
  at home.  Born Aug. 6, 1951, in Somerset.  Daughter of Edward E.
  "Bud" and Jacqueline (Winters) Brougher.  Preceded in death by
  brother, Edward C., April 26, 1984; maternal grandparents, Melvin
  "Pat" and Marian Winters; and paternal grandparents.  Clark and Mark
  Brougher.  Survived by parents, Jennerstown; husband, Richard L. and
  children: Jeffrey, a sophomore at Penn State, main campus; Kristine
  and Kathryn, both at home.  Sister of Betty Sue, wife of William D.
  Johnston Jr., Berlin.  Also survived by mother-in-law and
  father-in-law, Richard E. and Hazel C. Murray, Jennerstown;
  sister-in-law, Donna J., wife of James R. Benson, Mechanicsburg; and
  nephews, Tommy Johnston and Matthew and Ryan Benson.  Member of
  Laurel Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jennerstown; church
  council and the worship committee.  Taught First Communion class for
  19 years.  Also member of Trinity Chapter 138, O.E.S., Somerset;
  Laurel Arts, National Association of Wheat Weavers and Oakbrook
  Acorns Golf Association.  Member and past president of the Somerset
  Garden Club and a former assistant director of Region 6, Pennsylvania
  Federation of Garden Clubs.  1969 graduate of the former
  Jenner-Boswell High School and a 1973 graduate of UPJ with a bachelor
  of science degree in elementary education.  Also received an associate
  degree in 1995 in computer technology from Westmoreland Community
  College, Greensburg.  Former teacher in the North Star School
  District.  Also a substitute teacher at North Star, Somerset area and
  Shanksville-Stonycreek school districts and the IUO8.  Treasurer of
  the North Star Soccer Boosters.  Lifelong member naments. 
  Craftsperson for 19 years at Somerset Mountain Craft Days.  Friends
  received from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and until 11:30
  a.m. Sunday at the Hoffman Funeral Home, Main Street, Boswell. 
  Service at 1 p.m. Sunday at Laurel Trinity Church, with the Rev.
  Edward N. Corneilson officiating.  Interment, Somerset County
  Memorial Park.  No viewing at church.  OES service at 8 p.m. Friday
  at the funeral home.  In lieu of flowers, memorials to Laurel Trinity
  Lutheran Church Youth Scholarship Fund, Jennerstown, Pa. 15547, would
  be appreciated.
  
  Daily American, November 15, 1996
  
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