OBIT: FRANK A. LEIBERGER The Daily Courier, Monday, February 3, 1919 Connellsville, PA, Fayette Co. Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Patricia Homlish. m2mhomlish@ezol.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. The Daily Courier, Monday, Feb 3, 1919, Connellsville PA, Fayette Co. FRANK A. LEIBERGER, FORMER ENGINEER, IS CALLED TO THE BEYOND Following a lingering illness, Frank A. Beiberger, 73 years old, a retired Baltimore & Ohio passenger engineer, and one of the most widely known men of Connellsville, died Sunday night at 7:50 o’clock at his home in West Peach street. Death was not unexpected. He had been failing in health for three years and in hope of regaining his health, he entered the West Penn hospital, Pittsburgh, undergoing two operations, one a year ago last January and the other during the following month of May. He gained temporary relief from the operations, but soon afterwards neuritis developed. The deceased was confined to his bed virtually all of the time during the past year. Mr. Leiberger was born at Easton, Pa., April 25, 1846, a son of the late Michael and Cresentia Leiberger. He spent his early life at Easton and for some time was an engineer on the Lackawanna railroad. Thirty-six years ago when the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company was recruiting engineers, Mr. Leiberger, with other railroad men, came to Connellsville and continued in the service until 10 years ago when he was compelled to give up his work on account of blindness of right eye caused by a (something that starts with a “c”). He was pensioned by the company and since that had lived retired. Mr. Leiberger was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Baltimore & Ohio Veteran’s organization and Trinity Lutheran church. He was twice married January 17, 1870, he was married at Easton to Miss Mary Catherine Noff. Some time following her death, he was married May 7, 1881, to Mrs. Caroline Mentzel. In addition to his widow, he is survived by four children. Frank W. Leiberger, Morgantown; Ms. J. S. Parker, Connellsville; Mrs. J. A. Bailey, Pittsburg, and Mrs. Ella Graft, Philadelphia, to the first marriage, and one son, Arthur Leiberger, with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and two daughters, Mrs. J. W. Hankins of Royal, and Mrs. H. E. Mason of Connellsville, to the second marriage. Two stepchildren, Robert Mentzel Leiberger, and Miss Addie Mentzel Leiberger, both of Connellsville, 12 grandchildren and two great grandchildren, also survive. Running as a passenger engineer on both the Connellsville and Pittsburg divisions of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for many years, Mr. Leiberger learned to know a wide circle of railroad men, by whom he was held in high esteem. No arrangements will be made for the funeral until it can be learned if Arthur Leiberger has arrived in the States. Word has been received here that other members of his company have arrived in Newport News.