OBIT: Violet M. (PUGH) TURNEY, 1974, Ralphton, Somerset County, PA
  
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  TURNEY
  
  Mrs. Violet M. Turney, 72, of Stoystown RD 1 (Ralphton), died unexpectedly
  April 22 at Somerset Community Hospital.  Born Sept, 22, 1901 in Somerset
  County, a daughter of Robert and Emma Custer Pugh.  Preceded in death by
  parents; husband, James M., who died July 2, 1971; a daughter Edna and a
  brother Bert.  Survived by these children: J. Robert, married to the former
  Henriette Clement of Somerset RD 5; Sara, wife of Ralph Leventry of
  Stoystown RD 2; Ethel, wife of Paul Lohr of Meyersdale RD 3; Charles,
  married to the former Helen Cottle of Boswell; Violet, wife of Sheldon
  Bedford of Rockwood RD 3; John, married to the former Eva Schlosnagle of
  Latrobe; Verna and Patricia, both at home; 20 grandchildren and two
  great-grandchildren.  Sister of Ethel, Mrs. Gladys Faidley and Dale all of
  Somerset; Mrs. Maud Wills of Huntsville, Ala.; Donald of Chicago, Ill.;
  Mrs. Dorothy Byrd of Hershey; Warren of Berlin and Mrs. Grace Dallas of
  Shawnee-Mission, Kan.  Member of Horner Lutheran Church.  Retired in 1963 as
  postmistress at Ralphton having served 25 years.  Friends received from 7 to
  9 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and until noon Thursday at the
  Joseph G. Hoffman Funeral Home, 409 Main St. Boswell.  Body will be removed
  to Homer Lutheran Church for viewing from 1 p.m. until time of service at 2
  p.m.  Interment in church cemetery.
  
  Somerset Bulletin, April 23, 1974
  
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