OBIT: John A. BOYD, 1948, Berlin, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN A. BOYD

  Funeral services for Lt. John A. Boyd, 22, of Berlin, who was killed in a 
plane crash in East Harling, England, December 13, 1943, were conducted at 
Konhaus Funeral Home, Meyersdale, Saturday at 2 p.m., with the Rev. H. K. Hilner 
of Zion Lutheran Church officiating.  Burial was made in the Meyersdale Union 
Cemetery, with military rites in charge of John C. Tressler Post V.F.W. and 
Charles E. Kelly Post, American Legion.
  He was the son of C. Ray and Edna Austin Boyd, who survive.  Others surviving 
are the following brothers and sisters, S/Sgt F. W. Boyd at Andrews Field, Va.; 
Catherine Rose and Edna Ray Boyd, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. W. S. Keck, Greensburg.  
Also surviving are the paternal grandparents and maternal grandfather.  He was a 
member of Mt. Lebanon Presbyterian Church.
  Lt. Boyd was a navigator serving with the Eighth Air Force and met death in a 
plane crash when returning from a mission.

Meyersdale Republican, August 5, 1948