OBIT: Essex Mister (BOTSFORD) WAGNER, 1986, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  WAGNER
  
  Essex Mister Botsford Wagner, 80, of Washington Avenue, Warren
  County, died June 14 in Greenville, S.C.  Funeral services were held
  June 18 in Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Robert Jones
  officiating.  Burial was in the Prospect Hill Cemetery.  Born Nov. 7,
  1905, Mrs. Wagner was the daughter of the Rev. Chauncey R. Botsford,
  DD, and Jane B. Botsford.  She was the widow of Parke R. Wagner.  A
  1928 graduate of Susquehanna University with a bachelor of arts and a
  bachelor of oratory degree, she taught at Somerset High School and
  Warren County High School.  During her tenure at Warren County, she
  chaired the English department and was adviser to the Forensics Club,
  which won numerous first place state honors.  As an active member of
  the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, she was a Sunday School teacher
  and church leader.  She was first president of the Lutheran Church
  Women and served several other terms as president of the
  organization.  She was a member and past president of the Willing
  Workers Circle Kings Daughters.  A member of the Gently Farm Prayer
  Group, she belonged to the Retired Teachers Association and the
  American Association of Retired Persons.  Mrs. Wagner volunteered her
  time at Samuels Library, the Senior Citizens Center and the 200 Club
  where she told and read stories.  Surviving are sons Parke Wagner Jr.
  of Lakeland. Fla.; James C. Wagner of Biloxi, Miss.; and Robert C.
  Wagner of McKeesport; six grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
  
  Daily American, August 20, 1986
  
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