OBIT: James Willard "Bill" RAKER, 1985, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  JAMES W. RAKER
  
  James Willard (Bill) Raker, 73, of RD 1, Keyser, W.Va., died Tuesday, Sept.
  17, 1985, at Potomac Valley Hospital.  He was born April 5, 1912 in
  Hustontown, Fulton County, son of the late George Raker and Gertrude
  (Laidig) Raker.  He was a retired employee of the bookmobile division of the
  Mineral County library system.  He was a former restaurant owner and farmer
  in Mineral County.  Survivors include his widow, the former Betty Jane
  White; one sister, Mrs. Mabel Claycomb, Bedford; one niece, Mrs. Robert
  Morgan, Johnstown; and two nephews, Kerry Claycomb, Berlin, and Kevin
  Claycomb, Bedford.  Friends were received at the Markwood - McKenzie Funeral
  Home where services were conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Andrew
  Agnew.  Interment, Potomac Memorial Gardens.
  
  The Republic, September 26, 1985
  
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