OBIT: Melvin Frost BROADWATER, 1949, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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MELVIN F. BROADWATER

  Dr. Melvin Frost Broadwater, 60-year-old dentist, died Friday, Feb. 11, of 
pneumonia in Memorial Hospital, Frederick, Md.
  He was a native of Grantsville, a son of the late James S. and Marion (Frost) 
Broadwater.  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hildegarde Broadwater of Frederick and 
two sisters, Misses Ethel and Viola Broadwater of Grantsville.

Meyersdale Republican, February 17, 1949


MELVIN FROST BROADWATER

  Funeral services for Dr. Melvin Frost Broadwater, 60, well known dentist, 
native of Grantsville, who died Feb. 11, in Frederick Memorial Hospital, 
Frederick, Md., were held last Tuesday at 10:30 a.m., at the M. 
R. Etchison and Son Funeral Home.  The Rev. J. Franklin Hass, pastor of Calvary 
Methodist Church officiated.
  Interment was made in Arlington Cemetery at one o'clock with military honors.  
The burial service was conducted by the Rev. William McGinnis, chaplain of Fort 
Meyer, Va., assisted by members of the cemetery staff.
  Dr. Broadwater, son of the late James Sanford and Marlan (Frost) Broadwater, 
was born in Grantsville, Md., Sept. 5, 1888.  He was a great-grandson of Meshach 
Frost, founder of Frostburg, and grandson of William C. Broadwater of 
Grantsville, also a Western Maryland pioneer.
  He attended St. Johns College, Annapolis, University of Pittsburgh Dental 
School and graduated from the University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore.  
Dr. Broadwater practiced dentistry in Pittsburgh before enlisting in the U.S. 
Army Dental Corps in 1918.  He served as a Captain until 1921.
  Upon discharge from the Army he became associated with the Veterans 
Administration.  He served as dental surgeon in the U.S. Dental Corps, Cape May, 
N.J., Public Health Hospital, Perry Point; Edward Hines Jr., Hospital, Chicago; 
Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C.; New Haven Conn. Veterans' Hospital; Bay 
Pines Hospital, St. Petersburg, Fla. and Polyclinic Hospital, New York City.  He 
practiced dentistry in Frederick since 1938.
  Dr. Broadwater was a member of Calvary Methodist Church, Frederick; Lodge No. 
684, B.P.O. Elks; Francis Scott Key Post, American Legion; Forty and Eight; 
Catoctin Club, Inc., Catotin Country Club; Psi Omega dental fraternity, and 
served as president of the Frederick County Dental Society.
  His wife, the former Hildegarde Merkel of Los Angeles, Calif., whom he married 
in Chicago in 1923, survives; also a son, Robert Broadwater, Hyattsville, three 
grandchildren and two sisters, Misses Ethel and Marian Viola Broadwater, 
Grantsville.
  Among those attending the funeral services were Misses Ethel and Viola 
Broadwater, Mrs. T. O. Broadwater, Mrs. H. F. Broadwater, Grantsville; Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert Broadwater, Hyattsville; Dr. and Mrs. G. V. Broadwater and son, 
Nick, and Mrs. Isabel Hull, Hagerstown; Mrs. Nelle Zeller and Mrs. James 
Lemmenrt of Frostburg; Dr. and Mrs. Harry Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. John Jackson, 
Baltimore; William Bender, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Edwards, Mrs. Roy Mickey and Mrs. 
D. W. Hershberger, Grantsville, and members of the Frederick County Dental 
Society who attended in a body.

Meyersdale Republican, March 3, 1949