OBIT: Maude (SHAFFER) ROSS, 1975, native of Somerest County, PA
  
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  ROSS
  
  Maude Shaffer Ross, 85, died Oct. 3, 1975, at Central Kansas Medical
  Center, Great Bend, Kans.  Born May 7, 1890, in Somerset the daughter
  of George and Elmira (Stull) Shaffer.  Preceded in death by parents,
  first husband, J. Watson Frease, and son, George Shaffer Frease, and
  second husband, Elmer T. Ross.  She was reportedly the first woman in
  Somerset to own and operate an automobile.  She is survived by a
  granddaughter, Mrs. Donna Lynn Zuendel, with whom she resided in
  Kansas for the past few months.  Also surviving are a grandson, Robert
  Gary Frease, and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Elma M. Frease, both of
  Akron, Ohio.  Service will be held at the Eckard, Baldwin Funeral
  Home, Akron, Ohio, Tuesday (today) at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Ron Mosby
  officiating.  Interment, Green Lawn Cemetery, Akron, Ohio.
  
  Somerset American, October 7, 1975
  
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