OBIT: Peter DICKEY, 1945, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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PETER DICKEY

  Peter Dickey, aged 77 years, died at the family home in Indianapolis, Indiana, 
Friday, July 5, at 5:30 a.m.  Upon receipt of the telegram the son-in-law and 
daughter of the deceased, Mr. and Mrs. John Sherman, managers of the New 
Colonial Hotel, completed the necessary preparations and left by automobile 
Saturday morning for Indianapolis to be present at the funeral rites, which were 
held in St. Patrick's Catholic Church on Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock.
  Accompanying Mr. and Mrs. Sherman was a sister of the latter, Mrs. Susie 
Gleskey, of Pleasantville, N.Y., who had arrived at the Colonial Hotel for a 
visit only a few days before the receipt of the telegram announcing the death of 
her father.
  For 35 years Peter Dickey was a resident of Shaw Mines, during which time he 
was employed by the Somerset Coal Company, and continued to reside and work 
there after the mines were taken over by the Consolidated Coal Company.  In 1923 
the family moved to Chicago, Ill., where Mrs. Dickey died in 1924, afterwards 
Mr. Dickey moved to Indianapolis, where he resided 20 years.
  Surviving are four daughters and three sons - Mrs. Mary Sherman and Mrs. Susie 
Gleskey, mentioned above; Mrs. Elizabeth Miron, Helen, Stephen, Joseph and Peter 
Dickey, all of Indianapolis.  Also surviving are nine grandchildren and two 
great-grandchildren.
  Mr. Dickey was a native of Slavonia and located in this community more than a 
half-century ago.  He will be remembered by those of the older inhabitants here 
about as a man who possessed many of the nobler qualities of manhood, and who 
was rated as one of our fine and industrious citizens, as well as a miner of 
unusual skill and judgment.

Meyersdale Republican, July 12, 1945