OBIT: Frank BOLDEN, 1947, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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FRANK BOLDEN

  Frank Bolden, leading building contractor and carpenter of Meyersdale for many 
years, died Sunday morning in the Hazel McGilvery Hospital after a brief illness 
which necessitated his being taken to the hospital Saturday evening.  He was 
born in Oakland, Md., June 4, 1872, a son of Charles W. and Marion (Shirer) 
Bolden.  He came to Meyersdale as a young man.
  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margarette (Wilhelm) Bolden, to whom he was 
married in 1895, and the following children: Mrs. Vincent Ferreau, Mrs. Quinten 
Jaxon, and Joseph Bolden, all of Philadelphia; Mrs. Charles Younkin, 
Hyattsville, Md.; Stuart Bolden, Somerset; Roger and Frank Bolden, Meyersdale; a 
brother, Robert Bolden, Wheeling, W.Va., and five grandchildren.
  Mr. Bolden was a hard-working man all his life, and did a great deal of 
carpenter work and building in Meyersdale and vicinity.  He thought of retiring 
several years ago, and turned over many jobs to his son Frank, Jr., but since 
the war his services have been more and more in demand, and he continued working 
until his life's end.
  The latest building for which he contracted was the new factory on Thomas 
Street, being built for the Stock Shirt Manufacturing Co., and which is nearing 
completion.  This job Mr. Bolden really took on as a public service to The 
Meyersdale Development Association which is financing the new factory building.  
  Funeral services Wednesday afternoon at the Bolden home on upper Broadway, at 
2 o'clock.  Burial in Union Cemetery under the direction of H. R. Konhaus.

Meyersdale Republican, December 25, 1947