This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burns, McDowell Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2dB.2ACI/2626 Message Board Post: The Ligonier, PA "Echo" issue of 10 September 1954, p. 4, col. 5 Mrs. I.G. McDowell A native of the Ligonier Valley, Mrs. Emma McDowell, 67, Irwin R.D. 3, died at noon Sunday at her home along the Brush Creek road. A member of the Manor Methodist Church, she was born in Ligonier Twp. December 12, 1886. Mrs. McDowell is survived by her husband, I.G. McDowell, and four children: Robert, Paul, and Mrs. Milton Slater, all of Irwin R.D. 3, and Mrs. Paul Penny, Turtle Creek. Also surviving are 11 grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: George, Arthur and Alex Burns, all of Ligonier; Mrs. Leah Nicely, Greensburg; Mrs. Lida Whirlow, Pittsburgh and Mrs. Lizzie Byers, Somerset. Friends were received at the Rodgers Funeral Home, 310 Third St., Irwin, where services were conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesdsay by Rev. P.W. Baer and Rev. L.C. McCune, followed by interment in the Brush Creek cemetery. _____________________________________________