OBIT: Raymond D. CORDREY, 1944, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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RAYMOND D. CORDREY

  Raymond D. Cordrey, 53, was found dead in a chair at his store, the Western 
Auto Accessories, Meyersdale, Friday morning, Jan. 7, about 9:30 by a relative.  
Death was caused by coronary occlusion.
  Mr. Cordrey was born in Baltimore, Dec. 21, 1889, the son of John D. Cordrey.  
At an early age he moved with his parents to Cumberland where he attended 
school.  Later he was employed by J. D. Orrick and Son Company, wholesale 
grocers.  About twenty years ago he came to Meyersdale to take charge of the 
Kenneweg Company after it was located here.  For the past seven years he 
operated the Western Auto Accessories store on Center Street.
  In the first world war, Mr. Cordrey served in France for nine months and then 
was sent back to this country to become an instructor in gas tactics at an Army 
Camp in California.
  Mr. Cordrey is survived by his wife, Sadie (Purbaugh) Cordrey, and one 
daughter, Mary Catherine, an employee of the State Department of Agriculture at 
Harrisburg.
  He was a member of Charles E. Kelly Post, American Legion, and of the Lions 
Club.
  Funeral services were held at the Cordrey home, Beachley Street, at 2:30 
Monday afternoon, with Rev. Thomas R. Thomas, pastor of the Methodist Church 
officiating.  During the hour of the funeral the business places of Meyersdale 
were closed.  Interment was made in Union Cemetery in charge of W. C. Price and 
Son, morticians.
  The pallbearers were members of Charles E. Kelly post, American Legion, of 
which Mr. Cordrey was a past commander.

Meyersdale Republican, January 13, 1944