OBIT: Henry Michael AUSTIN, 1943, native of Somerset County, PA

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HENRY MICHAEL AUSTIN

  Henry Michael Austin, aged 29 years, died in the Memorial Hospital, 
Cumberland, Md., on Friday morning, March 19, death being attributed to 
complications following a mastoid operation.
  He was born in Meyersdale August 14, 1913, a son of Charles and Ellen Michael 
Austin.  His mother preceded him in death in 1929.  He graduated from the 
Meyersdale High School in the class of 1931.  He was a member of the Meyersdale 
Fire Department, the Laurel Falls Association, and the Central City American 
Legion Home Aid Association.  He has been employed by the State liquor stores in 
various parts of the county for a number of years. 
  Surviving are his father and the following brothers and sisters: Esther, Mary 
(Mrs. W. H. Barmoy), Robert, James, Ernest and Helen, of Meyersdale; Nell (Mrs. 
G. Tressler) and Oscar, of Akron, Ohio; Hazel, Elsie and William, of New York 
City. 
  Funeral services were conducted at three o'clock on Sunday afternoon at the 
Austin home on Salisbury Street, by Rev. Nelson C. Brown, pastor of Evangelical 
and Reformed Church, of which the deceased was a member.  H. R. Konhaus, local 
mortician, was in charge of funeral arrangements and burial.  Pallbearers were 
Merle Tressler, Tony Tattarelli, Andy Horchner, Paul Dahl and Galen Schrock, all 
close friends of the deceased.

Meyersdale Republican, March 25, 1943