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IN MEMORIAM

Laura K. Maranz, 84; Area Native

Missionary In So. America, Africa

Louise Knapp Maranz

NORTH FRANKLIN – Louise Lura Knapp Maranz, 84, a missionary in Central and South America and Africa, passed away Wednesday, September 5, 2018, at her home in Christiansburg, Va.

At her bedside were her husband, two daughters, son, son-in-law, and three grandchildren. She had suffered with Alzheimer’s for several years.

She was born in N. Franklin on August 31, 1934, and graduated from SUNY Oneonta in 1955.

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