OBIT: Elsie May (FERNER) SMITH, 1978, Somerset, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Sally Statler Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ SMITH Elsie May Smith, 80, of E. Main Street, Somerset, died Jan. 22, 1978, at Somerset Community Hospital. Born May 23, 1897, in Allegheny County, daughter of the late Warren and Grace (Launce) Ferner. Survived by husband, Nelson W. Smith; these children: Mrs. Neil (Betty) Morrison of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Emily Cooper of Somerset; these grandchildren: Lt. Col. Nelson J. Cooper and Mrs. Lynn Clark; these great-grandchildren: Robert B. Cooper II, Nelson J. Cooper II and Christopher Crawford; also one brother, Lester W. Ferner of Somerset RD 1. Member of Trinity Lutheran Church, a member and past matron of Trinity Chapter, O.E.S. and former co-owner of the Ferner Hotel. Friends will be received today after 3 p.m. at the Richard E. Hauger Funeral Home, where services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Rev. H. James Meyers officiating. Interment, Somerset County Memorial Park. Daily American, January 24, 1978 [S2041]