OBIT: Emma B. (KREPELKA) BURBA, 1997, Hollsopple RD, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed by Patty Millich and proofread by Alice James Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ BURBA Emma B. (Krepelka) Burba, 81, Jerome Hill Road, Hollsopple RD, died Aug. 5, 1997 at Patriot Manor. Born Jan. 14, 1916 in West Virginia, daughter of Louis and Anna (Seidel) Krepelka. Preceded in death by parents; stepmother, Mary (Kouba) Krepelka; infant sisters: Helen and Mary; and brothers: James and Joseph. Survived by husband, Stanley M. "Red," and these sisters and brothers: Rose, wife of Stanley Stapinski, Carmichaels; Louis, Orland, Calif.; Anna, wife of Joseph Stapinski, Joliet Ill.; John, married to Betty Jean Divley, Berlin; Agnes, wife of William Brown, Plainfield, Ill.; and Frank, Orland, Calif. Member of Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall, Ferndale Avenue, Johnstown. Observed 45th wedding anniversary May 1997. Friends received from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Friday at the Hoffman Funeral Home, Allegheny Street, Boswell where service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday with Jehovah's Witnesses officiating. Entombment, Grandview Mausoleum, Johnstown. Daily American, August 7, 1997 [B3129]