OBIT:   MASSENJUSER, Lawrence; 1908; Carrolltown, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 16 Oct 1908
Volume 42, Number 40


Aged Monk is Dead 
Brother Massenjuser Passes Away at Carrolltown of 
Infirmities Incident to Advanced Years

Carrolltown, Oct. 15 -- Brother Lawrence Massenjuser, aged 
87, died here this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock following 
illnesses incident to his advanced age. He was born in 
Bavaria, Aug. 15, 1821.  Aug. 17, 1851, at St. Vincent's 
church, some years after he emigrated to this country, he 
pronounced the solemn vows and entered the old brotherhood 
of monks. He was one of the pioneer settlers in this 
section of Cambria County and among the leaders in the 
establishment of Catholic Church in the early days when 
Cambria was young.  There is but one of the old order of 
the brotherhood alive since the death of Brother 
Massenjuser.

The funeral will take place tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock 
with a requiem high mass at St. Benedict's Catholic Church 
at this place.  Interment will be in the church cemetery.