OBIT: Emma (HABEL) ROWE, 1982, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA
  
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  EMMA ROWE
  
  Emma (Habel) Rowe, 95, of Meyersdale, died May 1, 1982, in Meyersdale
  Community Hospital.  She was born April 28, 1887 in Meyersdale,
  daughter of the late William H. and Emma (Troutman) Habel.  Also
  preceded in death by her husband, Clarence F., in 1959.  She is
  survived by one niece, Mrs. Althea Philson of Meyersdale, and a
  nephew, W.H. Habel, of Lancaster; and seven great-nieces and
  nephews.  She was a life-member of Amity United Church of Christ and
  was a member of the choir and the Helping Hands Sunday School Class;
  member of the Somerset Eastern Star, the Meyersdale Civic League, the
  Meyersdale Community Hospital Auxiliary, the Women's Club and the
  Meyersdale Public Library Board of Directors.  She was the first woman
  in Somerset County to receive a driver's license.  Friends were
  received at the Leckemby Funeral Home, Meyersdale, where services
  were held with the Rev. Lloyd Sechriest officiating.  Interment, Union
  Cemetery.
  
  The Republic, November 6, 1982
  
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