OBIT:  Rev. John D. VAN HORN, 1982, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  REV. JOHN D. VAN HORN
  
    Rev. John D. Van Horn, 92, died at Meadville United Methodist Home on
  Tuesday, April 13, 1982.  He was formerly of Beaver, the husband of Berdeen
  Braymer Van Horn; father of John Foster Van Horn, of Kingston, N.Y.;
  grandfather of Isabel B. and John E., of Dallas, Tx.; brother of Gene Van
  Horn and the late Judson T.; Mrs. W. C. Price; Mrs. W. P. Donaldson; Mrs.
  Walter Edge and, Harold Van Horn.  He was a member of the Western Penna.
  Conference of Methodist Churches (served for 50 years), served as District
  superintendent of Allegheny Conference from 1940 to 1946, served Methodist
  Churches as Pastor at Windber, McKeesport, Sheraden, Beaver Falls, Calvary,
  Ligonier and Beaver.
    He was a graduate of Allegheny College, graduate of Boston University of
  Theology, Doctor of Divinity from Mt. Union College, Trustee Emeritus of
  Allegheny College, a member of St. James Lodge Beaver F. & A.M. No. 457,
  Chaplain W. W. I 11th Infantry A.E.F. and was awarded the Purple Heart.
    Services were held in Meadeville at the United Methodist Home last
  Thursday, at 10 a.m.  Further graveside services were held at the Scottdale
  Cemetery at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.  Arrangements were charge of the Gene Van
  Horn Funeral Home, Pittsburgh.
  
  The Republic, April 22, 1982
  
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