OBIT: Charles C. FIKE, 1931, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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CHARLES C. FIKE

  SELBYSPORT, Md., Feb. 23 - Charles C. Fike, whose serious illness was reported 
in these columns last week from a stroke of paralysis and other ailments, 
quietly passed to the beyond on Thursday, February 19th.  He was aged 68 years, 
11 months and 12 days.  He was married to Bertha Blanche Riley, Sept. 11, 1891.  
To them 12 children were born, two of whom died in infancy.  Mrs. Fike and the 
following children survive:  Mrs. Margaret Huff, Ursina, Pa.; Mrs. Orpha Frazee, 
Selbysport; Mrs. Vespa Thomas, Laughlintown, Pa.; Mrs. Nan Thomas and Mrs. Chloe 
Griffith, Guard, Md.; Mrs. Emma Hinebaugh, Friendsville; Ralph Fike, Selbysport; 
Allen, Russel and Twile Fike at home; also a brother, Thomas Fike, Friendsville, 
and a sister, Nancy Guard, Guard, Md., and 15 grandchildren.
  Mr. Fike was a member of the M.E. Church South in Mill Run, from boyhood, but 
later transferred his membership to the M.E. Church here, where he always 
attended services and was Sunday School superintendent for the last 11 years.  
He served as rural mail carrier on Route 1, Selbysport, from the time of its 
beginning up to his retirement four years ago.
  The pall-bearers were Ernest Selby, Earl Bowser, Fred Humberston, Frank 
Lowdermilk, Albert Frazee and Martin Frazee.  Among those who attended the 
funeral from out of town were:  Mr. and Mrs. ? Riley and sons, Dale and Bob, 
Gray, Pa.; Mrs. Edna Riley, Sha?; Mrs. Ruth Riley Lohr, Somerset; Mrs. Mattie 
Boyer, Belle Vernon, Pa.; Floyd Riley, Oakland, Md.; Thomas Fike, Friendsville.

Meyersdale Republican, February 26, 1931