OBIT: Harry W. BYERS, 1947, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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HARRY W. BYERS

  Harry W. Byers, a retired crane operator for the B & O Railroad Company, 
passed away last Friday morning in the Aspinwall Veterans Hospital, where he had 
been a patient for many months.  He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War 
and was aged 69 years at the time of his death.
  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Habel Byers, and these children: Mrs. 
Una Lichty and Mrs. Doris Clapper, Meyersdale, Mrs. Louise Philippi, Rockwood, 
H. Willard Byers, Pittsburgh, and Fern, Blaine and John Byers, at home.  He is 
also survived by five grandchildren and three brothers and a sister: Peter Byer, 
Harrisburg; Frank Byer, Shelocta; Abe Byer of Lancaster County and Mrs. Mary 
Whiteman, Lancaster.
  Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Konhaus 
Funeral Home, Meyersdale, with Rev. Nelson C. Brown officiating.  Burial was 
made in the Reformed Church Cemetery under direction of H. R. Konhaus.

Meyersdale Republican, September 4, 1947