OBIT: Sara J. (HOOVER) SECREST, 1974, Rockwood, Somerset County, PA
  
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  SECREST
  
  Sara J. Secrest, 88, of Rockwood, died April 30, Somerset Community
  Hospital.  Born July 17, 1885, in Rockwood, a daughter of the late
  Hiram and Minerva Kuhs Hoover.  Survived by two sons, Robert S. of
  Scottdale, and James, of Cleaveland; four daughters, Mrs. Mabel Kemp
  of Meyersdale, Mrs. Melba Bryner, Uniontown, Mrs. Zelda Moran, Des
  Moines and Mrs. Sara J. Neff, Miami; one brother, Robert Hoover,
  Council Bluffs, Iowa; 18 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, and
  two great-great-grandchildren.  Preceded in death by husband Robert,
  in 1938; two daughters, Agnes Sechler in 1926, and an infant
  daughter, Zepha May, in 1910; two sisters, Mrs. Ruby Ravenscraft and
  Mrs. May Uphold; and two brothers, Harold and Charles Hoover.  Was a
  charter member, Rockwood United Church of Christ, and the Rebekah
  Lodge of Rockwood and was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway
  Trainmen Lodge.  Friends will be received in the William J. Wood
  Funeral Home, Rockwood, 7-9 p.m. Thursday, where services will be
  conducted Friday at 2 p.m.  Interment, Rockwood IOOF Cemetery, with
  Rev. C.C. Moore officiating.
  
  Somerset Bulletin, May 1, 1974
  
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