OBIT: William Henry FRAZIER, 1945, native of Bedford County, PA

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WILLIAM H. FRAZIER

  William Henry Frazier, retired Sand Patch rural mail carrier, died in the 
Hazel McGilvery Hospital, Meyersdale, at 10 o'clock, Saturday morning, Oct. 20, 
after having been confined there and in Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, for six 
weeks.
  Born Feb. 12, 1863, in Bedford County, a son of William and Lavina (Keller) 
Frazier, he was aged 82 years, 8 months and 8 days at the time of his death.
  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Priscilla Frazier; three daughters, Mrs. Lavada 
Bittner and Mrs. Elsie Arnold, Somerset, and Miss Minnie Frazier, Large St., 
Meyersdale; one brother, Andrew Frazier, Glen Savage; five grandchildren and 
eight great-grandchildren.  Four sisters and four brothers preceded him in 
death.
  Friends viewed the body of Mr. Frazier at the Price Funeral Home until Tuesday 
noon, when he was taken to the Hochstetler Church of the Brethren, Greenville 
Township, of which he was a member, and lay in state there until services were 
conducted at 2:30 o'clock by his pastor, Rev. J. Ewing Jones.
  Pallbearers were: Samuel Baer, John Jackson, Irvin Bittner, Harvey 
Krechensteiner, Perry Smith and Herman Sturtz.  Interment was made in Union 
Cemetery by W. C. Price & Son.
  Besides serving efficiently for many years as a rural carrier, Mr. Frazier 
owned and operated a small farm one-half mile south of Sand Patch, which he 
tilled and kept up in a manner that was a model for all neighboring farms.  His 
character and conduct were always without reproach.  By his death, Somerset 
County has lost one of its most exemplary citizens.

Meyersdale Republican, October 25, 1945