OBIT: William Wilson ENGLE, 1942, St. Paul, Elk Lick Twp., Somerset County, PA

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WILLIAM WILSON ENGLE

  William Wilson Engle died at his home in the village of St. Paul, Elk Lick 
Township, Aug. 5, aged 73 years, 9 months and 26 days.  The cause of his death 
was lobar pneumonia.  He was a son of John B. and Elizabeth Tressler Engle late 
of Elk Lick Township, and was born and reared on a farm but spent most of his 
life working in the coal mines of the Elk Lick region.
  He is survived by these children: Mrs. Clara Blanche Riley and Mrs. Kathryn 
Fogle, Washington, D.C.; Burl Engle of Indiana County; Mrs. Leona Shelton of 
Chagrin Falls, O.; Paul and Garrison Engle, at home; Mrs. Marion Swartz, Mercer, 
Pa.; Markle Engle and Mrs. Alverna Cobledick, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Emma 
Whitmer, Franklin, Pa.  He is also survived by these brothers and sisters: 
Harvey of St. Paul, Elmer of Meyersdale, R.D. 1, Miss Susan Engle of Garrett, 
and Mrs. Clara Smith, Columbus, Ohio.  His wife, who before her marriage was 
Miss Cora E. Tressler, preceded him in death 15 years ago.
  Funeral services were held at St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, last 
Saturday at 2 p.m., Rev. A. J. Forry officiating.  Interment was in the St. Paul 
Cemetery under the direction of Stanley M. Thomas, mortician of Salisbury.

Meyersdale Republican, August 13, 1942