OBIT: Lewis M. SHIPLEY, 1943, Confluence, 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/ ________________________________________________ LEWIS M. SHIPLEY Lewis M. Shipley, 84 years old, died Oct. 13, in the E. M. Price Hospital, where he had been a patient for a short time. Mr. Shipley was a resident of Bidwell for more than 50 years, and for the last several years had made his home with a daughter, Mrs. Ray Hyatt, in Confluence. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. E. M. Hiltabidel of South Connellsville; Mrs. James Walsh of Johnstown; Albert J. and Ben C. of Pittsburgh; Raymond of Confluence; James L. and Clyde D. of Youngstown, Ohio, and Mrs. Ray Hyatt of Confluence; 21 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Carissa Morrison of Connellsville and Mrs. Dan Close. Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the Confluence Christian Church by Rev. J. F. Messenger of Somerset. Interment was made in the Baptist Cemetery at Mill Run, Pa., under the direction of Charles B. Humbert, Confluence mortician. Meyersdale Republican, October 21, 1943