Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries.....Edward S. MORAN, 1948
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Cumberland Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, 12 July 1948: 
"Mayor Edward S. Moran Dies While Awaiting Operation--Westernport--
Mayor Edward S. Moran, 47, of 215 Hammond Street, died yesterday 
morning at 3:55 a.m. at  Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, where he 
had been admitted July 7.  He underwent an operation February 16 
and had been readmitted to the hospital for treatment preparatory 
to a second operation. Mr. Moran was born at Frostburg, a son of 
the late Daniel and Lucy Hershburger Moran and had moved to 
Bloomington with his parents when a child.  He resided in the 
Tri-Towns area since that time and was elected mayor of 
Westernport on March 29 for a two-year term. He was sworn in 
April 5.  Mayor Moran was engaged in the coal business for 25 
years, operating the Edward S. Moran and Sons mine, located near 
here.  He served as justice of the peace for about two years, 
being appointed in 1939 by former Governor Herbert R. O'Conor. 
He resigned the position in 1941 because of ill health.  Besides 
his widow, Mrs. Sarah (Wilkinson) Moran, he is survived by five 
sons, Charles, James and Harold Moran, all of Westernport, and 
Richard and Donald Moran, at home; two sisters, Mrs. Rex 
Frankland, Piedmont, and Mrs. Carrie Guy, Westernport.  Mrs. 
Willis McCombs, another sister, died January 23.  Also surviving 
are three grandsons, Charles, Robert and Thomas Moran, all of 
Westernport.  Mayor Moran was a member of St. Peter's Catholic 
Church.  The body is at the residence and a funeral mass will be 
held Wednesday at 10 a. m. at the church. Interment will be in 
Philos Cemetery.  City officials said today that Mayor Moran is 
the second Westernport mayor to die in office. The other was 
John Sampson Miller, the first elected mayor of the town. His 
death occurred about 40 years ago.  The council has not set a 
meeting to select a successor to Moran.  Under the city charter 
the commissioners may chose any registered voter of the town."


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