OBIT: Pearl A. (CLOSE) WILEY, 1987, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  PEARL A. WILEY
  
    Pearl A. Wiley, 82, of RD 2, Grantsville, Md., died Thursday, Dec.
  24, 1987 at Sacred Heart Hospital.
    She was born April 8, 1905 at Farmington, a daughter of the late
  Wilbur E. and Sarah (McLaughlin) Close.  She was a member of the
  Jennings United Methodist Church.  She was preceded in death by her
  husband, Albert D. Wiley, on Feb. 24, 1957.
    She is survived by three sons, Harold Wiley, Grantsville, Md.;
  Marvin Wiley, Cumberland, Md.; and Albert Wiley Jr., Baltimore, Md.;
  two daughters, Mrs. Kathleen Sipple, Grantsville, Md.; and Mrs. Helen
  Holliday, Inglewood, Fla.; one brother, Thomas Close, Markleysburg;
  one sister, Mrs. Florence Willes, Markleysburg; 12 grandchildren; 15
  great grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren.
    Services were conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Newman Funeral
  Home, with the Rev. Joseph Upole officiating.  Interment, Grantsville
  Cemetery.
    Pallbearers were Lonnie Broadwater, Dayton Broadwater, Rodney
  Meyers, Randall Wiley, Morris Resh, and David Beachy.
  
  The Republic, December 31, 1987
  
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