OBIT: Edwin D. BALDWIN, 1946, Berlin, Somerset County, PA

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EDWIN D. BALDWIN

  Edwin D. Baldwin, 78, a prominent businessman and member of the firm of 
Baldwin & Dively, died at his late home in Berlin Sunday morning.  He had been 
in ill health for several months. 
  Before being associated with the present firm he was a buyer for a number of 
Somerset County stores and later was associated with a wholesale hardware 
business.
  Mr. Baldwin was ever interested in the civic and educational development of 
the community in which he lived.  He served as a member of the school board and 
also as a member of the borough council.  He was a fine neighbor and a friend to 
those in need. 
  Having been born with unusual musical talent he was a member of the Baldwin 
Band composed of his father, brothers and sisters, who played for various 
gatherings in the county, during his boyhood.  He was also a charter member of 
the Berlin Band, a musical organization well known in Western Pennsylvania.  He 
sang in the choir of the Lutheran Church for thirty years, of which church he 
was a faithful member.
  Mr. Baldwin, better known as "Dabby", was a member of the Berlin Lions Club, 
Berlin Volunteer Fire Department, Modern Woodmen of America and I.O.O.F. and 
Berlin chamber of Commerce.
  He was born in Meyersdale, a son of Joseph and Lucinda (Dickey) Baldwin.  His 
first wife and mother of his six children, Cora Walker Baldwin, died a number of 
years ago.  He is survived by his second wife, Ada Dively Baldwin, who was a 
good step-mother to his children.  The surviving children are: Mrs. Clinton 
Christner, Shanksville; Mrs. W. Harold Albright, Somerset; Mrs. Homer C. Cober, 
Johnstown; Mrs. Henry D. Davis, Berlin; and Merle W. Baldwin, a druggist of 
Pittsburgh.  An older son, Roy W. Baldwin of Indiana, Pa., died May 6, 1945.  
Surviving also are 15 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, and a 
brother, Wm. H. Baldwin of Meyersdale.
  Funeral services were held in the Johnson & Son funeral home, Wednesday, Sept. 
11th, at 2 p.m. with Rev. Robert S. Nagle, officiating.  Interment in the 
I.O.O.F. cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, September 13, 1946