OBIT: Matilda (HOCKMAN) FAILINGER, 1945, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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MATILDA FAILINGER

  Funeral services for Mrs. Matilda Failinger, aged 77 years, who died at her 
home Sunday morning, June 3, were held at the Winterberg Funeral Home, Tuesday 
afternoon, Rev. E. E. Feckincher of the German Lutheran Church, Cove, Md., 
officiated.  The pallbearers were Olen Yoder, W. Harold Miller, L. B. Schaefer, 
S. E. Duckworth, Harry Lohr and A. G. Reichenbecher.  Interment was made in the 
Addison Cemetery, Addison, Pa.
  Mrs. Failinger was the daughter of the late William and Louise Hockman and was 
born July 27, 1867, at Cove, Md.  She was the last member of a family of nine 
children, and lived to be the oldest.  On Dec. 6, 1886, she married John 
Failinger, who passed away a good many years ago.  She lived on the Ryland farm 
on the National Highway (U.S. Route 40) near the Mason and Dixon Line, a short 
distance west of Keyser's Ridge, for 50 years, and in Grantsville the last three 
years.
  Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Christina Beal, and one son, William H. 
Failinger, Grantsville; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.  One 
grandson, Cpl. Raymond Failinger, is in the U.S. Army in Holland.
  Mrs. Failinger had been confined to her bed for nine weeks and was stricken 
with cerebral hemorrhage last Friday.  She was of a kind disposition and had 
many friends.

Meyersdale Republican, June 7, 1945