OBIT: Amelia Bertha (WEBER) POORBAUGH, 1942, Stonycreek Twp., Somerset County, 
PA

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AMELIA BERTHA POORBAUGH

  Mrs. Amelia Bertha (Weber) Poorbaugh, 47, wife of Ralph A. Poorbaugh, well-
known Stonycreek Township lumber contractor, died at 5:30 o'clock last Thursday 
morning, after an illness of four months.  Mrs. Poorbaugh had not been well 
since she fell at her home last April.
  She was a daughter of Louis and Amelia Weber, both deceased, and was born in 
Minneapolis, Minn., on July 15, 1895.  Amelia Weber and Ralph A. Poorbaugh were 
married in 1939 in Minneapolis.  She was his second wife.
  Survivors in addition to her husband, include three sisters and a brother, all 
residing in the West.  She also leaves four step-children: Mrs. Thelma Zeitler, 
Tyrone; Arthur Poorbaugh, State College, and Marlene and Carl Poorbaugh, both at 
home.
  Funeral services were conducted at 7:30 o'clock Friday evening by Rev. J. 
Kellar Brantley, pastor of the Shanksville Reformed Church.  The remains were 
taken to Minneapolis for burial.

Meyersdale Republican, September 10, 1942