OBIT: Laura (SPEICHER) SAYLOR, 1940, of interest in Somerset County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library. Transcribed and proofread by: Richard Boyer. Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ LAURA SAYLOR Mrs. Laura Saylor of Akron, Ohio, died at her home there on Tuesday, January 2, after an illness of about a year. She was born in Bedford County, August 24, 1886, the daughter of John B. and Edna (Kegg) Speicher. She is survived by seven children, Mabel, wife of W. P. Weider, Akron, O.; Prudence, wife of Charles Colgrove, Portage Lake, O.; and Roff, Howard, John, Edna and Kathryn of Akron, O. Also surviving are two brothers and one sister: Howard Speicher of Meyersdale, John Speicher of Johnstown and Mrs. Mary Meyers of Rockwood. The body was brought from Akron to the Johnson and Son Funeral Home in Berlin where it may be viewed until Friday afternoon. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock, Friday afternoon at the Reformed Church at New Buena Vista, Pa., and interment will be made in the Shellsburg Cemetery in Bedford County. Meyersdale Republican, January 4, 1940