OBIT: Malchus Sanford DICKEY, 1942, Somerset Twp., Somerset County, PA

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MALCHUS S. DICKEY

  Malchus Sanford Dickey, 77, prominent Somerset Township farmer, died last 
Saturday evening at 6:35 in the Somerset Community Hospital from a cerebral 
hemorrhage.  He had been in ill health, suffering from a heart condition for a 
number of years.  He was removed to the hospital February 13.
  Mr. Dickey, who resided near Lavansville, was the son of the late Samuel and 
Sally Schrock Dickey.
  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Bertha Miller Weller Dickey, daughter of David 
and Sara Ellen Miller Weller of Somerset Township; these children, Mrs. Edward 
A. Hanley of Berkley, california; John W., teacher in the State Teachers College 
in Newark, N.J.; Richard of Somerset R.D. 2; Daniel of Harrisburg; two brothers, 
W. P. Dickey of Dunn, North Carolina; B. B. Dickey of Berlin and one sister, 
Mrs. Charles Sechler of New Centerville.
  A private funeral service was held Tuesday afternoon for only members of the 
family.  Rev. Charles R. Shilke, pastor of the Lavansville Lutheran Church of 
which he was a member, officiated, assisted by Rev. L. W. Gross, pastor of the 
Lutheran Church at New Centerville.  Interment in Somerset County Memorial Park.

Meyersdale Republican, February 19, 1942