Westmoreland County PA Archives Obituaries.....Aukerman, Marie B.  March 28, 1990
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Latrobe Bulletin Thu, Mar 29, 1990
VBS Founder, Pioneer Awardee Succumbs At 94 
Mrs. Marie B. Aukerman, 94, of 605 Hickory Grade Road, Bridgeville, (formerly of
Lycippus) died Wednesday, March 28, 1990, in Meadows Crest Nursing Home, Bethel
Park. She was born Nov. 5, 1895, in Latrobe, a daughter of the late William
Edward and Nancy Smith Blanset.
She was a member of the Calvary United Methodist Church and was the church and
Sunday School pianist for 25 years. She established the church's Daily Vacation
Bible School for children and was secretary of the board of trustees. She was
graduated in 1920 from what is now known as Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
and the University of Pittsburgh. In 1989, she received the IUP Pioneer Award.
She taught for 25 years in schools in Lloydsville, Trauger, Baggaley and
Pleasant Unity. She was a member of the Westmoreland County Retired Teachers
Association and the NRTA. She also was a member of the Daughters of the Union
Veterans of the Civil War Ruth F. Barnhart Tent 56. Besides her parents, she was
preceded in death by her husband, Trauger F. Aukerman, in 1968; two sisters,
Josephine Statler and Julia Fry, and a brother, Glenn Blanset. She is survived
by two brothers, Paul of Derry and Charles L. Blanset of Denver, Colo.; a
sister, Pauline Carroll of Portland, Ore., and a niece, Mrs. George (Joann
Marie) Williams of Bridgeville, with whom she made her home for 20 years.
Friends will be received from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in James P. Gaut
Funeral Home Inc., Pleasant Unity. Service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in
Calvary United Methodist Church, Lycippus, with the Revs. Lota C. Jones and
Homer J. Farabaugh officiating. Memorials can be made to the Calvary United
Methodist Church, Latrobe RD 1, 15650. 

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