OBIT: Charles Winter FERNSNER and Annie (YOUNKIN) FERNSNER, 1948, of interest in 
Somerset County, PA

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CHARLES WINTER FERNSNER/ANNIE YOUNKIN FERNSNER

  Double funeral services were held in the Price Funeral Chapel here, Friday, 
July 30, at one o'clock for Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Fernsner, of Washington, 
D.C., Mrs. Fernsner having followed her husband in death just two days after his 
passing away.
  Charles Winter Fernsner died in the Washington Sanitarium in Takoma Park, Md., 
on Monday, July 26.  He had been ill for two years.  Mr. Fernsner was a 
Marylander, having been born at Fort Locks, a town on the old Chesapeake and 
Ohio Canal, near Hagerstown.  His parents were Frederick Louis and Martha Silver 
Fernsner.  He was a member of St. Andrew's Espicopal Church at Clear Springs, 
Md.  He was a retired postal worker.
  Mrs. Annie Younkin Fernsner died in the Homeopathic Hospital in Washington on 
Wednesday, July 28, after a brief illness.  She was born near Meyersdale, the 
daughter of Elias P. and Emma Horner Younkin, 77 years ago.  She was educated in 
Prof. J. D. Meese's Meyersdale Academy.  Before her marriage to Charles Fernsner 
she had been an employee of Miller and Collins Department Store.  All her 
married life was spent in Washington, but she frequently returned to visit the 
town of her birth.  She was for many years a member of the Main Street Brethren 
Church.
  Mr. and Mrs. Fernsner are survived by two daughters, Mrs. Beatrice Pence and 
Miss Evelyn Fernsner, both of Washington.  Mrs. Fernsner is survived by three 
brothers, Roy Younkin of Erie, Pa., Charles Younkin of Hyattsville, Md., and 
Henry Younkin of Meyersdale.
  The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Gerald Polman, pastor of the 
Main Street Brethren Church.  Burial was made in Union Cemetery under the 
direction of W. C. Price & Son, morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, August 5, 1948