OBIT: John Albert BOLDEN, 1946, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN ALBERT BOLDEN

  John Albert Bolden died suddenly, Tuesday, July 2, about noon, at his home on 
Salisbury Street, following a severe heart attack, the third he had.  He became 
ill first at the Bolden Plumbing Shop on Saturday and had to be taken home.  On 
Sunday he felt much better and was able to be out.  Tuesday morning he suffered 
two more attacks at home, the second of which proved fatal.
  Mr. Bolden was born in Meyersdale, January 26, 1890, a son of Charles A. and 
Annie Hart Bolden.  His father died a number of years ago.  Albert learned the 
plumbing trade as a boy from his father and was an expert workman in every line 
of the trade.  Except for a few years of residence in Charleston, W.Va., he 
worked for the Bolden Plumbing Co., which since the death of his father has been 
continued by his mother, with the assistance of her sons and other members of 
her family.
  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Gill Bolden; his mother; four sons, 
Eugene, Somerset; John Albert Jr., Richard and Kenneth, Meyersdale, and one 
daughter, Marjorie, at home, and one grandson.  He also leaves eight sisters and 
brothers: Mrs. Marcella Stotler, Mrs. Walter Gress, Mrs. Mary Weyer, Mrs. Daniel 
Clapper, Mrs. Frank Thomas, Mrs. Elam Miller, Miss Anna Bolden, Edgar E. (Bill) 
Bolden and Frederick Bolden, all of Meyersdale.
  Funeral arrangements are in charge of R. Reich & Son.  Services will be held 
at 9 o'clock Friday morning in SS. Philip and James Catholic Church, when 
requiem mass will be sung by Rev. Father T. J. Houghton.

Meyersdale Republican, July 4, 1946