OBIT: Dr. W. H. Bruce CARNEY, 1948, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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W. H. BRUCE CARNEY

  Word of Dr. W. H. Bruce Carney's death was received by friends and relatives 
in Somerset County, last week.  Dr. Carney was pastor of the Garrett Lutheran 
Church for fifteen years and lived in the Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church parsonage 
during his pastorate.  He was well known by the older residents of southern 
Somerset County.
  Dr. Carney, who died in Bellevue Hospital, New York, late Friday after a major 
operation, was born at Belleville, Mifflin County, in 1870.  He was a graduate 
of the Millersville State Teachers' College, Gettysburg College and Susquehanna 
University.  He also received the degree of doctor of philosophy from Columbia 
University.  He taught school for a number of years before entering the 
ministry.
  After he resigned as pastor of the Garrett Lutheran charge, he went to DuBois 
where he served as pastor of the Lutheran Church for several years.  From 
DuBois, he went to Staten Island where he lived until his death.  He was 
president of Hartwich Seminary, Hartwich, N.Y.  Eight years ago, he became 
pastor of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church, West Brighton, Staten Island.
  He was not only a teacher and preacher but a writer as well, author of the 
history of the Allegheny Lutheran Synod, and an anthology called the "Lutheran 
Lyrics".  At the time of his death, he was working on a second volume of poems.
  During his pastorate with the Garrett Charge, 1904-18, the present Garrett and 
Pine Hill church buildings were erected.  During his funeral services, June 13, 
the church mortgage of his final pastorage was burned before the coffin.  
Masonic services were held prior to Sunday's funeral service by Beacon Light 
Masonic Lodge, acting for the Meyersdale Lodge of which the Rev. Mr. Carney was 
a member.
  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lydia Hay Carney; three sons, Dr. Bruce 
Carney of New York, Dr. Paul Carney, State College (both of whom were born in 
Garrett), Mark Carney, Staten Island; four daughters, Mrs. Lenore Carney Taylor, 
Misses Mary and Ruth Carney and Mrs. Beatrice Carney Whitehead.  He is also 
survived by a sister, Miss Jessie Carney.
  Among the relatives who attended the funeral were the following nieces of Mrs. 
Carney and their husbands: Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Werner of Stoystown; Mr. and Mrs. 
Mark Maust of Meyersdale, and Mr. and Mrs. Grover Wallace, Berlin.  Mrs. Carney 
is the former Lydia Hay, daughter of Ben G. Hay of Berlin.

Meyersdale Republican, June 24, 1948