OBIT: Rose Elizabeth (CAREY) OPEL, 1946, of interest in Somerset County, PA 

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ROSE ELIZABETH OPEL

  Mrs. Rose Elizabeth Opel, widow of the late Jacob H. Opel, died at her home on 
the National Highway at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 13.  She had been afflicted 
with carcinoma for a number of years, and a little over a year ago, underwent an 
operation.  She had been in seemingly good health most of the past year, but 
recently began to fail rapidly.
  Mrs. Opel was born in Garrett County, Md., near where she lived all her life, 
on May 28, 1883, a daughter of James and Ada (Blocher) Carey.  She was 63 years, 
1 month and 15 days in age at her death.  Her husband preceded her to the grave 
in 1942.  She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Blanche Finell of Portland, 
Oregon; four sons, Lester, residing near the state line, and William, Earl and 
Russell, at home; three sisters, Mrs. Anna McKenzie, Frostburg; Mrs. Mary 
Robinson, LaVale, and Mrs. Hazel Meese, Route 1, Salisbury; two brothers, John 
and Allan Carey of Frostburg, and two grandchildren.
  She was a member of the Grantsville Methodist Church.  Funeral services were 
conducted in the Mt. Zion Church on the National Highway at 2:30 p.m. on 
Tuesday, July 16, with Rev. Ira S. Monn, pastor of St. John's Reformed Church of 
Salisbury, officiating.  Interment in the Church Cemetery in charge of Mortician 
Stanley M. Thomas.

Meyersdale Republican, July 18, 1946