OBIT: Elizabeth (Kooser) WOLFE, 1931, native of Somerset County, PA

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ELIZABETH KOOSER WOLFE

  Mrs. Elizabeth Kooser Wolfe died last Saturday night in a Denver, Colo., 
hospital, following an emergency operation for appendicitis Thursday night.
  Her body was shipped to her native town, Somerset, Pa., for burial.  Funeral 
services were conducted at 4 p.m., Wednesday at the Kooser homestead on West 
Patriot Street, by Rev. Dr. I. Hess Wagner, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, 
with which Mrs. Wolfe had been identified since early girlhood.
  Mrs. Wolfe was the eldest daughter of the late Curtis and Emeline Kiernan 
Kooser, both long since deceased.  Had she survived a few more days she would 
have attained the age of 82 years.
  Mrs. Wolfe's husband, John F. Wolfe, died many years ago at Irwin, Pa., where 
he was general manager of the West Penn Coal Company.
  Mrs. Wolfe is survived by her only daughter, Mrs. Emeline Wolfe Bratton, wife 
of Lieutenant Commander Leslie M. Bratton, U.S.N., retired.  Commander Bratton 
is serving by appointment as Police Commissioner of Denver, at present.
  Surviving brothers and sisters are former Judge Francis J. Kooser, Edmund K. 
Kooser, Mrs. Eva Truxal, wife of Rev. Dr. Albert E. Truxal, all of Somerset, and 
Herman B. Kooser, prominent railway executive of St. Louis, Mo.

Meyersdale Republican, November 5, 1931