OBIT: Harold J. BIRD, 1946, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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HAROLD JOHN BIRD

  Harold J. Bird, of Connellsville, was found dead in bed at his home on Friday, 
July 12, by his wife, Mrs. Margaret (Stein) Bird.
  Mr. and Mrs. Bird had come to Meyersdale, where they attended the funeral of 
Mrs. Bird's nephew, James Seggie, on Thursday afternoon.  After the funeral Mr. 
Bird returned to his home in Connellsville, intended to work the following day, 
and Mrs. Bird remained here to attend the funeral of another nephew, James 
Seggie, in Frostburg the following morning.
  Upon her return to her home in Connellsville on Friday evening, Mrs. Bird 
found her husband dead in bed, having passed away several hours previously.
  Mr. Bird was born in Nottingham, England, Jan. 25, 1884, and came to this 
country as a young man.  He was a fast freight division engineer on the B & O 
Railroad, and was in the employ of that company for almost 37 1/2 years.
  Surviving in addition to his wife, are two daughters, Gladys and Nellie, and 
six grandchildren; four sisters and one brother in Nottingham, England; a 
brother, James Bird, a Methodist minister in Dike, Iowa, and several nephews.  
There are also three step-sons, William A., James R. and John E. Stein, all of 
Connellsville, and two step-daughters, Gladys M. Crise, and Margaret R. Stein of 
Akron, Ohio, and four step-grandchildren.
  Funeral services were conducted last Tuesday afternoon by Rev. M. J. Roth, 
pastor of the Connellsville Lutheran Church, in the absence of his pastor, Rev. 
William Hetrick.  He was laid to rest beside his first wife, Hannah (Brown) Bird 
in Hill Grove Cemetery, Connellsville.  The many beautiful floral tributes as 
well as the numerous friends and relatives who called at the Bird home were 
symbolic of the high esteem which Mr. Bird was always regarded.
  Those from a distance who attended the funeral were Paul Hornig and son, Paul, 
Alexander Tridell, Mrs. Fred Lynhurst and son, James, Mrs. Agnes Mann, 
Pittsburgh; Mrs.  Beatrice Horning Stewart, Wilkinsburg; Herbert Stein, 
Salisbury; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Smearman, Mrs. Andrew Stein, William Hornig and 
sons, Harold and Herbert, and Mrs. Harry Fisher, all of Meyersdale; Mrs. Scott 
Hartline and daughter, Bessie Taulberg of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hahn, 
Margaret Stein, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fluke and daughter, Agnes Jean; Neville 
Fluke, Mr. and Mrs. William Hahn, Mrs. Mary Seggie and Mrs. Ruth Tridell, all of 
Akron, Ohio.

Meyersdale Republican, July 25, 1946