OBIT: Louis Jewell CONSTANCE, 1930, Confluence, Somerset County, PA

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LOUIS JEWELL CONSTANCE

  Confluence, April 1 - Louis Jewell Constance died in the Frantz Hospital, on 
Wednesday night, March 26.  He was aged 48 years and 8 months.  He had been ill 
less than one week.  He submitted to an operation for appendicitis three days 
before his death.
  Mr. Constance was born in Baltimore, Md., in July, 1881, and lived there until 
1910 when he came to Confluence as a member of an engineering corps engaged in 
locating the Western Maryland Railroad along the Youghiogheny and Casselman 
Rivers, and remained here until his death.
  In 1912 he married Miss Therza Hawke who, with one son, Jack S. Jewell 
Constance, survive him.
  After the surveying and building of the Western Maryland Railroad, Mr. 
Constance was employed part of the time since as a clerk in the Maintenance of 
Way Department of the W. M. Railroad, and also part of the time as a clerk in 
the office of C. J. Bailey, in the lumber business.
  Mr. Constance was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a man of the 
very best habits.  His death is sincerely mourned by a large circle of friends.
  The funeral took place at the residence of his mother-in-law, Mrs. J. Hawke, 
at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 29, Rev. H. W. Jamison officiating.  Interment 
in the Addison Cemetery.  The pallbearers were Dr. M. M. Brooke, Clarence F. 
Smith, Fred Marquart, R. E. Black and Kenneth Williams.  Undertaker C. B. 
Humbert had charge of the funeral arrangements.

Meyersdale Republican, April 3, 1930