OBIT: Marshall DURST, 1942, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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MARSHALL DURST

  Services for Marshall Durst, 54, were held from the home place at Avilton, 
Md., Friday afternoon, Feb. 6.  Rev. Virgil R. Gillum officiated and interment 
was in the Mt. Zion Cemtery under the direction of William Winterberg, local 
mortician.  A firing squad representing Frostburg Farraday Post No. 24, American 
Legion, fired a volley over the grave.  Mr. Durst was a World War veteran and a 
member of the American Legion.  The squad consisted of Griffith Lewis, Olin 
Spiker, Earl McKenzie, Adam Kalbaugh, S. W. Green and John Tomlinson.
  Mr. Durst, a native of Grantsville, Md., died at his home in Chicago, Monday, 
Feb. 2, after an illness of several months, and his body arrived here Thursday.  
His death was due to a rather unusual disease in which the nerves of the muscles 
gradually died.  He was born in Avilton community March 23, 1888, a son of the 
late Wesley and Sarah Layman Durst.  His early life was spent here and he moved 
to Chicago about twenty years ago, where he later married.  For a number of 
years he was employed as a buyer of meats at the University of Chicago.
  Surviving, besides his widow, are two sisters, Mrs. Wilford Warne, Avilton, 
and Mrs. Lacey Steel, Lonaconing, and seven brothers, Ira Durst, Chicago, Harry 
Durst, Johnstown, Pa., Charles Durst, Frostburg, Sheridan, George, Norman and 
Piercy Durst, Avilton.  All were here to attend the funeral services.  He had 
been a member of the Mt. Zion Methodist Church since early boyhood.

Meyersdale Republican, February 12, 1942