OBIT: Lucinda (FIKE) WALKER, 1944, native of Somerset County, PA

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LUCINDA WALKER

  Mrs. Lucinda Walker, aged 93, died at 2 o'clock Friday morning, November 3, at 
the home of her daughter, Anna, Mrs. William H. Gnagey, in Somerset.
  Mrs. Walker was a native and the greater part of her life a resident of Summit 
Township.  She was a daughter of the late Samuel and Elizabeth (Keim) Fike.
  Her husband, William Walker, a prominent farmer of Summit Township, died many 
years ago.  After her husband's death she made her home with her son-in-law and 
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Gnagey, on the farm now owned by her grandson, 
Edgar W. Gnagey, a few miles north of Meyersdale.
  Mrs. William H. Gnagey, some time after her husband's death, moved to Somerset 
and her aged mother accompanied her and was tenderly cared for by her daughter 
until she succumbed to the infirmities of old age.
  Surviving next of kin besides her daughter, Mrs. Gnagey, are one son, Mandis 
Walker, of Los Angeles, Cal., eight grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren, 
one sister, Mrs. John Smearman of Meyersdale and one brother, Irvin H. Fike of 
Summit Mills.
  Mrs. Walker was a lifelong member of the Church of the Brethren.  Funeral 
services were conducted at 3 o'clock, Monday at the home of her daughter, by 
Rev. Galen R. Blough, pastor of the Somerset Church of the Brethren.  The body 
was brought to Meyersdale for interment in Union Cemetery, under direction of 
Mortician William S. Hoffman of Somerset.

Meyersdale Republican, November 9, 1944