OBIT: W. Carl COLVIN, 1943, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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W. CARL COLVIN

  W. Carl Colvin, 39, oldest son of Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Burns Colvin of McKinley 
Place, Somerset, died at his residence, Saturday evening, March 6, about 8:30.  
Death was attributed to a heart condition.
  Carl Colvin was born in Berlin, December 3, 1903, shortly after his parents 
had removed there from Bedford County.  There his father first started 
practicing dentistry, following his marriage to the former Miss Frances Penrose 
of Bedford.  The Colvin family moved to Somerset many years ago, and took up 
their residence at "McKinley Place."
  Following graduation from the Franklin and Marshall Academy in Lancaster, Carl 
Colvin attended the University of Pittsburgh for two years.  At the time of 
death he was employed by the Citizen's Supply Co., a Pittsburgh wholesale house, 
as a salesman.  He spent most of his life working as a salesman, with the 
exception of litte more than a year ago, when he was employed as a surveyor with 
an engineering corps in Bedford County, prior to the construction of the 
Pennsylvania Turnpike.  He also spent several years as instructor in woodcraft 
at the Kooser CCC camp, under direction of the educational instructor, Joseph B. 
Lippincott.
  The deceased was a lifelong member of the St. Paul's Reformed Church in 
Somerset.
  He is survived by his wife, nee Helen M. Murray of Hooversville, and to their 
union was born four children, Jane, 13, Joan, 11, Frances, 5, and William, 2.  
Surviving in addition to his parents, his wife and children, are these brothers 
and sisters, Katherine, wife of Richard H. Krissinger, Red Cross executive 
secretary of the Cambria County chapter, residing in Johnstown; Robert Burns 
Colvin, of Somerset, employed by the Standard Oil Company, and Miss Isabel R. 
Colvin, now at home awaiting assignment for overseas duty with the American Red 
Cross.
  Funeral services were conducted at the Walter S. Hoffman Funeral Home, 
Somerset, Monday afternoon, at 3, the Rev. Dr. George L. Roth reading the 
service, assisted by the Rev. J. F. Messenger, pastor of the First Christian 
Church.  Interment in Somerset Memorial Park.

Meyersdale Republican, March 11, 1943