OBIT: George G. DeLOZIER, 1946, Glencoe, Somerset County, PA

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GEORGE G. DELOZIER

  George G. DeLozier, well known retired hotel keeper, and merchant of Glencoe, 
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. W. Hartman, in Glencoe, after a 
lingering illness, on Thursday, May 30th.
  Funeral services were conducted at the Hartman home at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, by 
Rev. J. E. Gindlesperger, pastor of the Wills Creek charge of the Reformed 
Church, followed by interment in the Mt. Lebanon Reformed cemetery, under 
direction of Johnson & Son, Berlin morticians.
  The funeral services were largely attended.  Floral tributes were many and 
beautiful.  Pallbearers were, W. J. Broadwater, H. C. Cook, H. M. Bittner, M. A. 
Bittner, H. C. Raupach and C. B. Bittner.  Several members of the local church 
sang an appropriate hymn.  Three of his granddaughters from Boswell sang 
"Sometime We'll Understand" and "Waiting at the Gate".
  Frank J. Davis, Governor of the Moose Lodge of Cumberland, and Mr. Bowers 
attended as representatives of that lodge, of which he was a member.  Others 
attending from a distance were Mrs. H. J. Anderson of Glenshaw, Pa.; Mr. and 
Mrs. F. M. Kunker, Pittsburgh; Mrs. John Dudinack and W. A. DeLozier, Windber; 
G. W. Petry, Johnstown; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Petry, Salisbury; G. B. Rhoades and 
family and A. A. Sharp, Somerset.
  Mr. DeLozier was aged 69 years and 11 days, having been born in Salisbury, May 
19, 1877, a son of Howard and Martha (Bruckman) DeLozier.  He grew to manhood in 
his native town and married Miss Emma Petry of Salisbury, a sister of Frank A. 
and William R. Petry, prominent building contractors of Salisbury.
  After his marriage Mr. DeLozier located in Glencoe where he conducted a 
licensed hotel which did a flourishing business under the Brooks Law until 
national prohibition made the operation of hotels in small towns unprofitable.  
After he retired from the hotel business he conducted a general store in Glencoe 
until his health failed.
  Mr. and Mrs. DeLozier both were in poor health the last few years, and their 
children all having grown up and established in homes of their own, the ill and 
aged parents gave up housekeeping about a year ago and spent their last days in 
the home of their devoted daughter, Mrs. J. W. Hartman, where Mrs. DeLozier 
passed away last November 21.
  Surviving are seven children - Frederick W. and George A. DeLozier, both of 
Connellsville; Mrs. D. A. Smith, Boswell; Mrs. J. W. Hartman, Glencoe; Walter 
G., Cumberland, Md.; Mrs. James A. Ludy, Berlin, and Arthur A., Hyndman.  He is 
survived also by two sisters, Mrs. Ada Schrock, Johnstown; Grace DeLozier, 
Portsmouth, Va., and a brother, W. A. DeLozier, Windber.  He left also 21 
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
  George DeLozier was a man of affable, kind and generous disposition, devoted 
to his family and loyal to his friends.

Meyersdale Republican, June 6, 1946