OBIT: Ralph E. ENGLEKA, 1945, Berlin, Somerset County, PA

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RALPH E. ENGLEKA

Farmer Ralph E. Engleka Fatally Injured by Fall From Hay Loft

  BERLIN, July 3 - Ralph E. Engleka, 51, died at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon 
in the Community Hospital, Somerset, of injuries sustained last Friday afternoon 
in a fall from the hay loft in the barn on his farm near Berlin.  He suffered a 
fracture of the neck and an injury to the spinal cord.
  He was tripping hay in the loft when the rope on the hay fork broke.  He lost 
his balance and fell backward to the barn floor, landing on his head.
  He was the son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Landis) Engleka and was a lifelong 
resident of Somerset County.
  He is survived by his wife, Clara (Deist) Engleka, and a daughter, Erma; also 
one brother, Howard Engleka, of Glencoe, R.D., and a sister, Mrs. Charles 
Glessner of Berlin R.D.
  He was a member of St. Luke's Reformed Church.  Funeral services were held 
Wednesday at 2:30 p.m., at the Johnson Funeral Home, by Rev. Herman C. Snyder, 
pastor of the Berlin Reformed Church, officiating.  Interment in Berlin I.O.O.F. 
Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, July 5, 1945