OBIT: Margaret Jane (GRASSER) THOMAS, 1999, Boswell, Somerset County, PA
  
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  THOMAS
  
  Margaret Jane (Grasser) Thomas, 98, of Boswell died Sept. 2, 1999, at home.
  Born Sept. 29, 1900, in Thomas Mills, daughter of John and Ellen (Beener)
  Grasser.  Preceded in death by parents, husband Mahlon, who died Nov. 12,
  1966; brothers and sisters: Charles Frederick, Anne Catherine, John Albert,
  William Andrew, Mary Ellen Hammer, Francis Joseph, James Daniel, Jacob Leo,
  Elizabeth Julia Hopps, Eva Josephine Saylor, Edward Levi, Henry Lewis and
  Regina Marie; nephews, Maurice Pete and Earl Frederick, and niece, Clara
  Grace.  Last surviving member of the Grasser immediate family.  Upon the
  death of her sister, Eva Saylor in 1944, Margaret and Mahlon assisted Eva's
  husband Earl in the raising of these surviving nieces and nephews: Nancy
  Manges and Jacob Saylor, both of Jerome; Anna Blough, Utah; James Saylor,
  of Ferrellton; Raymond Saylor, with whom Margaret resided, and Eva Mae
  Felix, Hollsopple RD.  She also helped raise these special great-nieces and
  nephews: Barbara Saylor, Waco, Texas; Cheryl Shaffer, of Troy, Ala.;
  Margaret Emerick and Raymond Saylor Jr., both of Jenners, and Carl Saylor,
  Greensboro, N.C.  Also survived by many other nieces and nephews,
  great-nieces and nephews and great-great-nieces and nephews.  Member of All
  Saints Catholic Parish and Boswell Post 461, American Legion Auxiliary.
  Taught school at the former Saylor School in Thomas Mills as well schools
  in Hyasota and Jerome for several years.  Worked for the former Goldstein
  and Levine Garment Factory, Johnstown, and retired from the former Dorfman
  and Hoffman Garment Factory in Boswell.  Friends received from 7-9 p.m.
  Saturday and noon-4 and 7-9 p.m. Sunday at Hoffman Funeral Home, Main
  Street, Boswell, where vigil for the deceased will be held at 3:45 p.m.
  Sunday.  Funeral mass at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Peter's Catholic Church,
  Somerset.  The Rev. Msgr. Samuel J. Tomaselli, celebrant.  Committal,
  Somerset County Memorial Park.  Memorial contributions to Windber Hospice,
  600 Somerset Ave., Windber, Pa., 15963.
  
  Daily American, September 3, 1999
  
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