Westmoreland County PA Archives Obituaries.....Johns, Ella Louise Balsley  November 17, 1973
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Latrobe Bulletin Mon, Nov 19, 1973
Mrs. Ella Louise Balsley Johns, 69, of Rural Valley Pa., (formerly of Latrobe)
died Saturday evening in Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg. She was born in
Connellsville, Pa., Feb. 14, 1904, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
(Ida Ankney) Balsley. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church of Rural
Valley. She taught 29 years in the Latrobe Area Schools, (from 1951 to 1969 in
the Second Ward). Her husband, the Rev. Robert Johns, preceded her in death in
1952, and was pastor of St. James Lutheran Church, Youngstown, until his death.
She is survived by one son, the Rev. J. Samuel Johns of Rural Valley; one
daughter, Mrs. William (Ann) Bruggeman of Pittsburgh; two brothers, Thomas and
William Balsley, both of Connellsville and four grandchildren. The family will
receive friends at the John J. Lopatich Funeral Home Latrobe, from 3 to 5 and 7
to 9 p.m. daily. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Prince
of Peace Lutheran Church, Latrobe. Interment will follow in Unity Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be sent to the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. 

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