OBIT: Daphene (COUGHENOUR) WILLIAMS, 2002, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
  
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    Daphene C. Williams, 100, of Confluence, died Aug. 23, 2002, at
  Katie Miller's Personal Care Home, Confluence.  She was born April
  10, 1902, in Addison Twp., a daughter of the late Andrew and Emma
  (Heinbaugh) Coughenour.  In addition to her parents, she was preceded
  in death by her husband Kenneth, brothers Harvey, Roy, Melvin and
  Floyd and sisters Ida, Minnie and Irene.  She is survived by nieces
  and nephews.  She was a devoted lifelong member of Trinity Lutheran
  Church of Confluence, where she also served as church organist for
  many years.  She was a meber of Somerset Chapter 138 O.E.S.,
  Pennsylvania Retired Teachers Association and the Tuesday Quilters of
  Addison.  She was a 1920 graduate of Confluence High School and a
  graduate of today's California University of Pennsylvania.  She
  taught for many years in the Turkeyfoot Valley School  District at
  Addison, Dumas and Confluence.  She rode a horse to her first
  teaching job in Addison where she taught all eight grades, carried
  water, tended the fire and cleaned the schoolhouse daily.  Friends
  will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Humbert Funeral Home
  in Confluence, where services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday with
  the Rev. Ardelle Mason officiating.  Memorial contributions to
  Trinity Lutheran Church are suggested.  
  
  Daily American, August 24, 2002
  
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