This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McDowell Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2dB.2ACI/2629 Message Board Post: The Ligonier, PA "Echo" issue of 10 September 1969, p. 14, cols. 3-4 Mrs. Emma McDowell At the age of 89, Mrs. Emma McDowell of Route 259 (RD 1, Ligonier) died Friday in Latrobe Area Hospital. She was born February 24, 1880, in Ligonier Township, daughter of Cyrus & Isabel Jane McDowell, and was the widow of Eldridge McDowell who died in 1937. Surviving are two sons, Willis McDowell of RD 3, Wallace McDowell and Mrs. Herbert (Emma Belle) Peterson of RD 1, Ligonier; a brother, Walter McDowell of RD 2, Irwin; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Rev. Benton R. McKee of Heritage United Methodist Church, of which she was a member, conducted obsequies Monday in Gordon O. Snyder Funeral Home chapel, and burial was in Ligonier Valley Cemetery. ______________________________________________