OBIT: Lucinda (BRANT) COBER, 1948, Berlin, Somerset County, PA

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LUCINDA COBER

  Mrs. Lucinda Cober, the oldest resident of Berlin, passed peacefully away 
Tuesday, December 21.  Had she lived until January 3 she would have been 99 
years old.  She was the daughter of Frederick and Phoebe Brant and was born in 
1850 on a farm near Berlin.  Her husband, Aaron Cober, a leading farmer of 
Brothersvalley Township, died in 1900.
  Later she with her family, moved to Berlin where she conducted her own home 
for many years.  Due to failing health she made her home with her son, the late 
Alvardo B. Cober, and her daughter-in-law, by whom she was tenderly cared for.
  She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Carrie Kreider, Lancaster, Pa, and Mrs. 
Bernard Nowag, San Diego, Calif., a step-daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Coughenour of 
Johnstown, and a sister, Mrs. Eliza Baker of Berlin, and numerous grandchildren 
and great-grandchildren.
  She was a faithful member of the Berlin Brethren Church.
  Funeral services were held Thursday, December 23, at 2 p.m. with the Rev. 
Percy C. Miller officiating in the Johnson Funeral Home.  Interment in the Cober 
cemetery near Berlin.

Meyersdale Republican, December 30, 1948