OBIT: Rachel Mae (WATKINS) RODDY, 2002, Somerset, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by John C. Oester. Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ RODDY Rachel Mae Roddy, 76, of Somerset, died Dec. 7, 2002 at Somerset Hospital. Born Nov. 28, 1926 in Pricedale. Westmoreland County, she is the daughter of the late James F. Watkins, Janie Mae (Barnett) Watkins. Also preceded in death by brother, James R. Watkins and a grandson, Bradley Scott Meyers. Survived by husband Clarence H. Roddy, to whom she was married 46 years on May 12, 2002; daughter, Mrs. Paul (Joyce) Meyers of Somerset; grandchildren, Benjamin Paul and Melissa Noel Meyers; sisters-in-law, Bonnie Watkins of Somerset, Mrs. Warren (Bernadine) Sterner of Rockwood and Dorothy Hartman of Windber. Attended Somerset Alliance Church and was a 1945 graduate of Somerset High School. Retired as an operator for GTE and switchboard operator for Somerset Hospital. Friends received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday in the Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home, Somerset, where services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Rev. Scott Ream officiating. Interment, Mizpah Cemetery. Daily American, December 9, 2002 [R817]