OBIT: Darius Herald BROADWATER, 1949, Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, PA

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DARIUS Herald Broadwater

  Darius Herald Broadwater, businessman and ex-postmaster of Salisbury, died at 
his home in Elk Lick Township at 11 p.m. June 8 following an illness of about 11 
months duration.
  Mr. Broadwater resigned as postmaster in March because of his failing health, 
and his condition had been steadily deteriorating since that time.  He was 
hospitalized several times for a week or more in the past six weeks, and had 
just returned from Hazel McGilvery Hospital on Monday evening preceding his 
death.  The cause of his death was a cerebral hemorrhage.
  Mr. Broadwater was born in Garrett County, Maryland, June 11, 1895, son of 
Samuel E. and Clara (Warnick) Broadwater.  He served with Co. C, 317th Machine 
Gun Battalion in France in World War I and was severely wounded in action; his 
service extended from May 24, 1918 to November 5, 1918.  He was three days short 
of 55 years in age at his passing.  
  Soon after his discharge from the Army, Mr. Broadwater settled in Salisbury 
and established himself in the meat business which he conducted successfully 
until shortly before World War II when he sold out.  He returned to meat cutting 
during the war at the J.C. Lichliter & Co. store because of the shortage of 
skilled help, and discontinued that occupation to become postmaster in the fall 
of 1946.
  He was married to Ethel Pearl Broadwater, who survives, as well as two sons, 
Forrest E. and Paul Broadwater.  Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Clara E. 
Broadwater; one brother, Austin C. Broadwater; one sister, Mrs. Hazel Hoffman, 
and one grandchild.  His father preceded him in death in 1933, as did a 
daughter, Mildred, in 1929.
  Mr. Broadwater was a member of St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Church, 
having transferred within the charge from Trinity Reformed Church in New 
Germany.  He was a member of Meyersdale Lodge No. 554, F. & A.M., Meyersdale; of 
Hebron Royal Arch Chapter No. 272, Meyersdale; of Uniontown Commandery No. 49, 
Knights Templar, and of Jaffa Temple Order of the Mystic Shrine, Altoona.
  He was also a member of Volture No. 609, 40 & 8, Somerset, and a charter 
member of Earl H. Opel Post No. 459, Salisbury, and the only commander of that 
post who served two terms.  He was a member of Salisbury Lodge No. 982, I.O.O.F. 
and a past Noble Grand of Salisbury Lodge 401, Improved Order of Red Men and a 
past Sachem; a member of the Salisbury Lions Club and an honorary member of the 
Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department.  He was ????? of the First State Bank of 
Grantsville, and had served two terms as auditor of Elk Lick Township.
  Funeral services were conducted in St. John's Reformed Church Sunday afternoon 
at 2:30.  The Rev. Samuel D. Sigler, of Grace Lutheran Church, Du Bois, and the 
Rev. Ira S. Monn, pastor of St. John's (Reformed) officiated.  Interment was 
made in the IOOF Cemetery, where Masonic rites and the Legion services were 
conducted by fellow members of Meyersdale Lodge and of Earl H. Opel Post.  The 
services in the church and at the cemetery were largely attended, probably as 
largely as any such services ever conducted here.
  Pall bearers were Bayard S. Maust, Hubert L. Newman, David E. Harris, Sr., 
David Cochrane, Fred H. Petry Jr. and James McClure, all fellow members of 
Meyersdale Lodge, F. & A.M., and also of Earl H. Opel Post. Honorary pall 
bearers were Robert H. Johnston, John C. Lichliter, Sr., Simon Marteney, Jonas 
S. Lichty, Jack Pyle, Francis A. Showalter, Samuel L. Engle and Walter D. Weise.  
Funeral services were under the direction of Stanley M. Thomas, Salisbury 
mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, June 16, 1949