OBIT: Carl R. CLAPPER, 1975, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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  CLAPPER
  
  Carl R. Clapper, 79, of Meyersdale RD 3, died May 20, 1975, in Sacred Heart
  Hospital, Cumberland, Md.  Born March 10, 1896 in Ellerslie, Md.  A son of
  the late Rev. Daniel and Rachael Hoover Clapper.  Survived by his widow,
  the former Margaret Saylor and these children: Robert and Dale, both of
  Meyersdale RD 3, and Mrs. Marie Cole, of New Castle, Del.  Also seven
  grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  A brother of Mrs. Nannie
  Tressler, of Meyersdale RD 3.  Clapper's Building Materials Inc. was
  originally started in 1925 by Mr. Clapper under the name of Meyersdale
  Concrete Products Works.  The firm is marking its 50th anniversary this
  year.  Mr. Clapper was a veteran of WWI and the oldest charter member of
  the Meyersdale Lions Club.  A member of the Church of the Brethren,
  American Legion and VFW.  A former member of the Meyersdale Community
  Hospital Board of Directors, the Meyersdale School Board and a former
  director of the Second National Bank and a former director of the Union
  Cemetery Association.  Friends will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday
  and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Price Funeral Home, Meyersdale,
  where services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday with the Rev. John Glick
  officiating.  Interment, the Union Cemetery.  Expressions of sympathy
  should take the form of contributions to the Church of the  Brethren,
  Meyersdale.
  
  Somerset American, May 21, 1975
  
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