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    1. [BRE] OBIT: Mrs. Minnie (HUGHES) LEASURE 1969: Church of the Brethren, Fairchance
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    3. A COB old obit was posted today on a county list; maybe someone will need it on this list. In the 1800s, Leasure persons lived in Ten Mile, Washington Co PA, but I don't know if any were German Baptist / COB. OBIT: Mrs. Minnie (HUGHES) LEASURE d. Aug. 1969 Posted May 30, 2008 to fayette_pa@yahoogroups.com Daily Courier page 17 August 11, 1969 (newspaperarchive.com) MRS. MINNIE LEASURE Mrs. Minnie LEASURE age 74 of Masontown, R.D. 1, died unexpectedly at her home. Surviving are six sons, including Clarence and Arthur of Masontown; two daughters, 19 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and six brothers, Joseph and Chanucey HUGHES of Fairchance, Charles and Irwin of Point Marion. Her husband, James LEASURE, died in 1954. end ruth Sprowls Minnie's obit in the Evening Standard is a bit more comprehensive: The Evening Standard Uniontown, Pa. May 13 1957 Hughes, Mary Ann --- Aged 80 of Dilliner (Maple Sterling) died in the Greene County Memorial Hospital, Saturday, May 11, 1957, following a brief illness. She had been a resident of Greene County for twenty-five years. She is survived by six sons, Charles, Irvin and Ralph, Dilliner; Joseph and Chuncey, Fairchance; Woodrow, Pt. Marion; two daughters, Mrs. James (Minnie) Leasure, Masontown; Mrs. Joseph (Cora) Rimmel, Dilliner, with whom she resided; one brother, William Fisher, Cherry Hill, W.Va; thirty-one grandchildren; twenty-seven great grandchildren. Friends are being received in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rimmel, Dilliner, until 12:30 p.m. Tuesday when brief services will be held followed by additional rites in the Church of the Brethren, Fairchance, at 1:30, with Rev. Willis Rosserman officiating. Interment will be in White Rock Cemetery under the direction of the Herod Funeral Home, Pt., Marion.

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