OBIT: Robert Ross LECKEMBY, 1966, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  ROBERT R. LECKEMBY
  
    Robert Ross Leckemby, 74, McKeesport, died at his home Aug. 29.  He
  was born Jan. 16, 1892, in Connellsville, a son of James E. and Martha
  (Witt) Leckemby.
    He is survived by three sons, Robert J., Jackson Center, Pa.;
  William R., Colorado Springs, Colo., and Harry of Altoona; three step
  children, Mrs. Louise Plunko, McKeesport; Francis Spene, DuBois;
  Raymond Spene, Reynoldsville; and 12 grandchildren.
    He was a brother of Mrs. Mary Stouffer, Akron, O., and Harry E.
  Leckemby, Rochester, Pa.
    He was preceded in death by his wife, the former Ada Zimmerman, in
  1948, and his second wife, the former Mabel Lehner, in 1962.
    A resident of McKeesport for the past 42 years, he was employed by
  the Christy Park Works of the National Tube Co. there.
    Friends will be received after 11 a.m. Thursday at Price Funeral
  Home, Meyersdale, where services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, with
  Rev. Robert Hoffman officiating.  Interment in Union Cemetery.
  
  Meyersdale Republican, September 1, 1966
  
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