OBIT: Bertha Pearle (ROWAN) SMITH, 2002, Confluence, Somerset County, PA
  
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  SMITH
  
  Bertha Pearle Smith, 96, of Confluence, died Jan. 31, 2002, at Laurel
  Ridge Center, Uniontown.  She was born April 18, 1905, in Stewart
  Township, Fayette County, a daughter of the late William and Harriet
  (Johnson) Rowan.  In addition to her parents, she was preceded in
  death by her husband, James Ralph Smith; daughters, Marie Tressler
  and Virginia Smith, a son, William Robert Smith, granddaughter, Carol
  Whiting, grandson, Michael Smith, stepchildren, Kenneth, Glenn, Carl
  and Marion Smith, a brother, Francis Rowan, and sister, Mae Dale. 
  She is survived by daughters, Clara Calvert and husband John, of
  Xenia, Ohio; Anne Grafton and husband, Charles, Cloquet, Minn., and
  Shirley Uphold of Fontana, Calif., sons, Donald Smith and wife,
  Lillian, Two Harbors, Minn., and James Ralph Smith Jr., and wife,
  Berdine of Confluence, a stepdaughter, Louise Lenhart of Beaufort,
  S.C., 21 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren, nine
  great-great-grandchildren and a sister, Aileen Conn of Somerset.  She
  was a member of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Uniontown. 
  Friends will be received from 2 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Humbert
  Funeral Home in Confluence, where service will be held at 11 a.m.
  Tuesday with the Rev. Paul Frank Jr. officiating.  Interment, Jersey
  Cemetery.
  
  Daily American, February 2, 2002
  
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