OBIT: Lewis A. BAUMGARDNER, 1974, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  BAUMGARDNER
  
  Lewis A. Baumgardner, 71, of 1700 Baumgardner Ave., passed away at
  7:05 p.m. Sept. 12 at Windber Hospital after a lengthy illness.  He
  was born April 21, 1903 in the village of Ogletown, Somerset County
  and was the son of Josiah and Amanda (Horner) Baumgardner.  He
  married the former Anna Seese on March 10, 1921.  The couple resided
  in Ogletown until 1945 when they purchased the former Berkey farm and
  moved to Windber.  In addition to his widow, he is survived by seven
  children: Vera, married to William Davis of Windber; Annabelle,
  married to Mervin Whitaker of Windber; Lewis Jr., at home; Evelyn,
  married to Robert Varner of Ebensburg RD 1; Glenn, married to Mary
  Louise Shank of Lansing, Mich.; and 13 grandchildren.  He was
  preceded in death by two grandchildren: Cynthia Baumgardner, daughter
  of Glenn and Mary Louise Baumgardner; and Jay Robert Weaver, son of
  Robert and Fern Weaver.  Baumgardner was a former Somerset County
  Commissioner of the Somerset County Republican Party.  He began his
  early career with the State Department of Highways in 1920 and
  operated a sawmill and stone quarry in the area of Ogletown and
  Central City.  In 1935 he formed the Baumgardner Resurfacing Co.,
  which paved many of the rural roads in Cambria, Somerset and Bedford
  counties.  As president of the Ogletown School Board, he helped form
  the Ogle Township Consolidated School Board.  In 1945, he founded
  Baumgardner Motors Inc. and opened an American Service Station in
  Windber.  In 1952 he formed Capitol Road Surfacing and Materials Co.
  in Harrisburg.  He began Baumgardner Petroleum Co. in 1953.  The
  company was one of the first in the nation to reclaim waste oils for
  fuel oil.  He developed a section of Windber known as Baumgardner
  Heights.  He was active in state politics and in 1962 he resigned
  from the County Commission to serve as Superintendent of Highways for
  Somerset County.  He retired in 1968.  He was a charter member of the
  Rural Electric Cooperative of Somerset County; a charter member of
  the Windber Rotary Club; a member of B.P.O. Elks Lodge 175; Windber
  Fire Co.; Windber Sportsman's Association and Ogletown United
  Brethren Church.  Funeral services will be held today at 10:30 at the
  Meek Funeral Home, Windber with the Rev. J. Paul Ciampa officiating.
  [End of obit]
  
  Somerset Daily American; No date of publication.
  
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