OBIT: Elmer P. RUHL, 1928, Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA

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ELMER P. RUHL

Elmer P. Ruhl, aged 40 years, of 1322 Clinton avenue, Irvington, N.J., died on 
Saturday at the Lancaster General hospital.  He was a graduate of Elizabethtown 
College and the University of Pennsylvania class of 1913.  Following his 
graduation at the latter institution he was principal of the Maytown High schoo, 
(sic) and a teacher in Pittsburgh.

For the past nine years he has been engaged in teaching in the Cleveland West 
Side and Barringer High schools of Newark, N.J.

He was a member of the Church of the Brethren, Brooklyn, N.Y.  He is survived by 
his wife, who before marriage was Florence Evans, of Lancaster; his parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. Hiram F. Ruhl, Manheim, and a sister, Mrs. Christian Gibbel, also of 
Manheim.

Private funeral services will be held at the home of William L. EVans, 809 North 
Duke street, Tuesday at 2 o'clock followed by a public service at the Church of 
the Brethren, Charlotte street, at 2:30.  Interment in the Cedar Lawn cemetery.

Sunday News, Lancaster, PA, September 2, 1928