OBIT: Alda Viola (BRANT) STEVANUS, 1975, native of Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Richard Boyer Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ MRS. RALPH S. STEVANUS Mrs. Alda Viola Stevanus, 79, of 1317 Ella Avenue, Cumberland, died March 24, 1975, at the Cumberland Nursing Home, where she had been a patient for a year and a half. Born Jan. 27, 1896, in Berlin, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Susan (Sivits) Brant. She was a graduate of the State Normal School in Berlin and had been a school teacher in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Stevanus was a member of Calvary United Methodist Church. She is survived by her husband, Ralph S. Stevanus; two daughters, Mrs. L. R. McKenzie, LaVale, Md.; and Mrs. Carl Weakley, Frederick, Md.; five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; a brother, Miles Brant, and a sister, Mrs. Albert Cober, both of Berlin. Funeral service was conducted Wednesday morning in Scarpelli Funeral Home, Cumberland, with Rev. William G. Patterson officiating. Interment in the Ridge Church Cemetery, Berlin. Meyersdale Republic, March 27, 1975 [S2982]