OBIT: Vida M. (FIRESTONE) SIPES, 1993, formerly of Somerset County, PA
  
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  SIPES
  
  Vida M. Sipes, 88, of Mather, Pa., formerly of Confluence, died
  Saturday, Feb. 6, 1993, in the Presbyterian Medical Center,
  Washington, Pa.  She was born July 29, 1904, at Hexibarger.  Daughter
  of the late Daniel and Pearl Younkin Firestone.  Married to Charles
  Sipes, who died in 1963.  Mrs. Sipes resided in Mather since 1981,
  where she made her home with her sister, Orpha Hostetler.  In August
  1987, she was critically injured in an auto accident.  As a result of
  the accident she was confined to the Presbyterian Medical Center until
  her death.  She was a Protestant and attended the Mather Christian
  Church.  Survivors include 3 sisters - Mrs. Rhuie Lynch and Kathryn
  Gerhard, both of Latrobe, and Orpha Hostetler of Mather; several
  nieces and nephews.  Friends will be received in the Behm Funeral
  Home Inc. Rt. 188 Jefferson, Pa., from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Monday. 
  Services at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home.  Interment,
  Jersey Cemetery, Confluence.
  
  Daily American, February 8, 1993
  
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