OBIT: John SIPPLE, 1932, Summit Twp., Somerset County, PA

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JOHN SIPPLE

  John Sipple, a life-long resident of Somerset County, died of pneumonia 
Tuesday morning at 5:30, at his home in Summit Township, near Sand Patch, after 
a brief illness.  At the time of his death he was 64 years and 1 day old.  He 
was a son of the late Adam and Margaret Finzel Sipple and is survived by his 
wife, Luella Yutzy Sipple, two daughters, Mrs. Leora Lancaster of Frostburg, 
Md., Mrs. Ida Hine of Akron, three sons, John, of Akron, O., and James and 
Allen, at home; two sisters, Mrs. Martha Hersh, Cumberland, Md., and Mrs. Mary 
Tressler, Meyersdale; four brothers, Henry, George and Ezra, Meyersdale, R.D. 4, 
and Rev. Simon Sipple, Allentown, Pa., and 10 grandchildren.
  Mr. Sipple spent his entire life in this community engaged in the coal 
business, having a mine on his farm, which he and his sons have operated for 
many years.
  Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in Amity 
Reformed Church by his pastor, Rev. B. A. Black, followed by interment in the 
Reformed cemetery.  Undertakers R. Reich & Son had charge of the funeral 
arrangements.

Meyersdale Republican, March 17, 1932