OBIT: Clarissa (FELL) HARPSTER, 1937, Union Furnace, Huntingdon County, PA

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MRS. CLARISSA F. HARPSTER
 
  Mrs. Clarissa Frances Harpster died at the home of her son-in-law and 
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carper, Union Furnace, Wednesday evening 
at five o'clock after a six weeks' illness with a heart condition.  
  Mrs. Harpster was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Warfel) Fell, 
and was born at Allegheny City, Pa., on September 10, 1854.  On 
February 10, 1875, at Manor Hill, she was united in marriage with Isaac 
J. Harpster, who died a number of years ago. 
  She is survived by these children: Laura A., widow of Oliver Scott, 
Petersburg; E. L. Harpster, Franklinville; George Harpster, Huntingdon; 
Mae, wife of Charles Carper, Tyrone R.D. No. 4; Maude, wife of Willard 
Pardoe, Tyrone R.D., No. 5; Guy Harpster, Pine Grove Mills; also 17 
grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren.  
  She was a member of the First United Brethren Church of Tyrone. 
  Brief services will be held at the home of Charles Carper, Union 
Furnace, on Saturday afternoon at two o'clock.  The funeral cortege 
will then go to the Seven Stars church where at 2.30 o'clock funeral 
services will  be conducted by Rev. John S. Colledge, pastor of the 
First United Brethren Church, assisted by Rev. Eugene McCahan, pastor 
of the Sinking Valley Presbyterian church, followed by burial in the 
Seven Stars cemetery.  The body may be viewed at the Carper home from 
Thursday until 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Thursday, January 7, 1937