OBIT: Pearl (SHEARER) APPLEBY, 1973, Mount Union, Huntingdon County, PA

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Pearl Appleby

Pearl V. Appleby, 84, of 204 West Market Street, Mount Union, passed 
away at 1:07 p.m., Friday, November 2, 1973, at the Lewistown Hospital, 
where she had been a patient for one day.  A native of Rockhill 
Furnace, she was born January 18, 1889 to Samuel and Catherine (Waters) 
Shearer.  On January 15, 1916, she was married to J. Donald Appleby of 
Mount Union by the Rev. C. W. Todd in the Mount Union Presbyterian 
Church.  Her husband died in 1964.  There is one son, James Donald of 
Ukiah, Cal. And one granddaughter, Josephine Welding of Las Vegas, 
Nev., as well as one great granddaughter.  Two sisters and one brother 
proceeded in death.  Mrs. Appleby was a member of the First United 
Presbyterian Church of Mount Union, where she had served as an elder.  
She had formerly sung in the church choir and was an officer and long 
time member of the Church Missionary Society and the Women's 
Association of the church.  She was greatly interested in and served 
for a number of years o the board of the Presbyterian Home in 
Philipsburg.  Mrs. Appleby also belonged to the Order of the Eastern 
Star Lodge 620 in Mount Union.  A graduate of Juniata College, she was 
a bookkeeper at the Mount Union Tannery and later worked at the First 
National Bank of Orbisonia.  Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. 
Tuesday, November 6, at the Heath Funeral Home in Mount Union.  The 
Rev. John P. Martin, superintendent of the Philipsburg Presbyterian 
Home, and the Rev. Robert W. Holmes of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Mount Union will preside.  Friends will be received at the funeral home 
from 2 to 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. until the hour of services on 
Tuesday.

The Daily News, Huntingdon, PA, November 5, 1973