OBIT: Mary Blanche (WILSON) RIFFLE, 1999, born in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset County, PA
  
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  RIFFLE
  
  Mary Blanche Riffle, 86, of Cranston, and later Providence, R.I.,
  died Dec. 26, 1999, at Philip Hulitar Hospice in Providence.  She was
  born Dec. 4, 1913, in Upper Turkeyfoot Township.  She was preceded in
  death by her daughter, Jill, her husband, Elmer, co-administrator of
  the Fayette County Area Vocational Technical School, as well as by
  her parents, Samuel and Nellie (Miller) Wilson, her twin brother,
  Park, and four sisters, Erma, Esthel, Eva and Carrie.  She is survived
  by three sons.  Robert of Philadelphia, James of Harrison Township,
  Mich., and Samuel of Providence, and a granddaughter, Elana of
  Providence.  Blanche was a graduate of Rockwood High School and the
  Uniontown Hospital School of Nursing where she served as a pediatric
  R.N.  She was an active member of the Jacobs Lutheran Church of
  Masontown and a volunteer for the McClellandtown High School Band
  Mothers and Meals on Wheels.  She did volunteer work in Cranston.
  Friends will be received from 2-9 p.m. Thursday at Humbert Funeral
  Home, Confluence, where services will be held at 11 a.m., Friday,
  with the Rev. Clarence Moore officiating.  Interment will follow in
  Somerset County Memorial Park.  Blanche and her family suggest
  memorial contributions to any children's charity of the donor's
  choice.
  
  Daily American, December 28, 1999
  
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