OBIT: John Theodore BRYAN, 1931, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN THEODORE BRYAN

  John Theodore Bryan, aged about 75 years, died at midnight, Sunday, at the 
family home on Salisbury Street, following an illness of several months.  Mr. 
Bryan was an esteemed and well known resident of Meyersdale and vicinity for a 
period of more than half a century.  In his younger days he worked as a coal 
digger and later took up painting and paper-hanging, in which handicraft he 
became quite proficient.  He possessed a pleasing disposition, and was liked by 
all with whom he came in contact.
  Three years ago a son, Harry Bryan, was drowned while engaged in fishing in 
the Youghiogheny River,  near Somerfield, in company with a party of fishermen, 
including his father, which proved an exceedingly hard blow to his parents, 
brothers and sisters.  About three months ago another son, Wilson Bryan, passed 
away in a Pittsburgh hospital, and it was since the death of the latter that Mr. 
Bryan had been bedfast.
  He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Zimmerman, and the following 
children: Bernard Bryan, of Akron, Ohio; Mrs. John Myers and Mrs. Theodore 
Dickson, of Pittsburgh.
  Funeral services were conducted at the Bryan home on Wednesday afternoon by 
the Rev. George Albert Fallon, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.  
Interment was in Union Cemetery under the direction of Undertaker W. C. Price.

Meyersdale Republican, September 24, 1931