OBIT: Howard A. BALDWIN, 1942, native of Somerset County, PA

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HOWARD A. BALDWIN

  Funeral services for Corporal Howard A. Baldwin, son of Clarence Baldwin of 
Friedens who died Monday as the result of an accidental discharge of a gun in 
the hands of an officer at Moody Field, Georgia, will be held Saturday at the 
Lutheran Church at Friedens at 3 p.m.  The Rev. M. F. Foutz, pastor, will 
officiate, assisted by the Rev. J. F. Messenger of First Christian Church of 
Somerset.
  A short service will be held at the home of his father-in-law, Sheriff Merle 
K. Glessner at 1:45 p.m.  The body will be taken to the Glessner home today, 
Wednesday upon its arrival by train from Moody Field.
  The body will be accompanied to Somerset by Harvey Mitchell of Coal Junction, 
a close friend of Corporal Baldwin's, who will act as guard during the journey 
home.

Meyersdale Republican, December 24, 1942