When Walter Marasco was in his mid-teens, he was living with a family in Riggles Gap, one of several foster children. One day, he put all his belongings into a little red wagon, and walked down the dirt road about a mile to the Moser family farm. He’d become friends with their sons. The Mosers […]
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May 12, 2021
Donald E. Nearhoof, 98, Antis Township, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday morning at Amber Terrace, Altoona. He was born in Antis Township, the seventh of eight children of the late Leroy and Bessie May (Bowers) Nearhoof. He was the last of his immediate family.
On April 18, 1948, he married his loving wife of 72 years, Shirley O. Ross, at Riggles Gap Church of the Brethren, and she preceded him in death on Sept. 7, 2019.
He is survived by three children: Linda Myers and husband, Ken, Patti Hollen and husband, Ken, and Daryl Nearhoof and wife, Laura; eight grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.