OBIT: Sheridan O. CATON, 2004, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed by Crystal. Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ SHERIDAN O. CATON Sheridan O. Caton, 60, Meyersdale, died July 11, 2004, in Addison Township. Born May 30, 1944, in Greenville Township a son of the late John W. and Mary A. (Fuller) Caton. Survived by two children: Brian L. Caton and his wife, Vanessa, Alice Springs, Australia, and Roxanne, wife of Charles Knopsnyder, Somerset; four grandchildren: Christopher and Matthew Caton, and Amber and Brandon Knopsnyder. A brother of Harry E. Caton; Wilson H. Caton; Veda, wife of Sheridan Logue; Myrtle, wife of Charles Race; and Rosemary, wife of Thomas Meyers, all of Meyersdale; Agnes Crissinger, Erin, Tenn.; and Beulah, wife of Robert Ceretta, Boynton. Sheridan served 41 years as a dedicated and devoted police officer and chief of police. He retired from the Meyersdale Police Department where he served as an officer and the chief of police, and he was currently serving as the Elk Lick Township chief of police. Sheridan died in the line of duty as he responded to a call in the early morning hours of July 11. A member of F.O.P. Lodge 98 in Somerset, and the Chiefs of Police Association. Friends will be received 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Price Funeral Home, Meyersdale, where service will be conducted 11 a.m. Thursday. The Rev. Eric Shaulis officiating. Interment will follow at the Greenville Union Cemetery with honors accorded by the Pennsylvania State Police, local police departments and the F.O.P. Arrangements by the William Rowe Price Funeral Home, Inc., Meyersdale. 07/13/2004 Daily American