OBIT: William Benjamin CONWAY, 1942, Rockwood, Somerset County, PA

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WILLIAM B. CONWAY

  William Benjamin Conway, 71, a former ticket agent for the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad at Rockwood and Ohiopyle, died Sunday afternoon, Oct. 4, at his home in 
Rockwood, after an illness of about two years.
  After retiring from the railroad service Mr. Conway entered the retail 
gasoline business and was seriously burned two years ago by a gasoline 
explosion.  He was a member of the Meyersdale Lodge No. 554, F. & A. M., 
Pittsburgh Consistory and the Jaffa Shrine of Altoona.
  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Minerva Conway, a daughter, Mrs. J. Arthur 
Stotler, Cumberland, Md.; two grandchildren, Margaret Stotler, at home, and John 
Stotler, now in an officers training school at Aberdeen, Md.; one brother, Frank 
W. Conway, Duquesne and a sister, Mrs. Laura Sigler, Cleveland, Ohio.
  Funeral services were held at 2:00 Wednesday afternoon at the Conway home with 
the Rev. J. C. Moses, pastor of the Rockwood United Brethren Church, assisted by 
the Rev. D. N. Clampa, former pastor, officiating.  Burial in the Rockwood 
I.O.O.F. Cemetery under the direction of Mills and Mickey, Rockwood morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, October 8, 1942