OBIT: Mary Alice (WABLE) DURST, 1997, formerly from Somerset County, PA

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  DURST
  
  Mary Alice Durst, 66, of Ohiopyle RD 1 died April 29, 1997, at Uniontown
  Hospital.  Born Nov. 14, 1930, at Uniontown, she was a daughter of Ethel
  (Firestone) Wable, Meyersdale, and the late Jack Wable.  She was also
  preceded in death by a daughter, Sandra S. Knapp, and 2 sisters, Bredella
  Fike and Virginia Wable.  Mrs. Durst was a retired cook for the Ohiopyle
  Dairy Queen and was a member of the Amvets Auxiliary in Hopwood.  She is
  survived by 4 sons: Thomas G. Durst, Douglas L. Durst and Donald R. Durst,
  all of Meyersdale, and John A. Durst, Fort Hill; 2 daughters: Gloria Jean
  Knapp, Warren, and Shirley I. Durst, Havelock, N.C.; three sisters:
  Margaret Carr, Fairchance; Shirley Vance, Elkins, W.Va.; Sara Jane Artice,
  Meyersdale; 15 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.  Friends will be
  received from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Newman Funeral Home, 179 Miller St.,
  Grantsville, Md., where services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, with
  the Rev. Nevin Umbel officiating.  Interment, St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery,
  Fort Hill.
  
  Daily American, April 31, 1997
  
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