OBIT: Elmer Franklin "E. Frank" FOLK, 1948, native of Somerset County, PA

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E. FRANK FOLK

  E. Frank Folk, a native of Greenville Twp. and resident of Meyersdale and 
vicinity during his boyhood and young manhood, was found dead last Saturday on 
the floor of the bathroom of the apartment in Canton, Ohio, in which he had his 
last home.
  He had apparently been fatally stricken and lay dead for seven or eight hours 
before his body was found, all the other occupants of the house having risen 
earlier and gone to their work and places of business.
  A cut on his forehead and a small pool of blood on the floor indicated that 
his head had struck a stationary washbowl when he had his fatal stroke.  He had 
been suffering from heart trouble during the last few years of his life and had 
several severe heart attacks previous to the one that proved fatal.
  He had been christened Elmer Franklin Folk, but after he grew up he 
abbreviated his name to E. Frank Folk because he had a cousin who also was named 
Elmer Franklin Folk and their identity often became confused because of the 
sameness of their names.
  His parents were Ananias and Ellen (Miller) Folk.  The family moved from 
Greenville Township to St. Paul, Elk Lick Township, when Frank was three years 
old.  They lived on what was known as the Ross Sechler farm near St. Paul, until 
1920.
  After he grew up, Frank married Miss Margaret Hechler, eldest daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Norman B. Heckler.  His wife preceded him in death by about four years.  
They were a childless couple.  Frank was one of a family of ten children, seven 
sons and three daughters.  Surviving are only two brothers, Orville A. Folk, 
well-known resident of Trans-Meyersdale, and Earl, youngest of the seven 
brothers.
  During his boyhood and young manhood, Frank engaged in farm work and odd jobs.  
Later he engaged in mechanical work in Cumberland, Md., Canton, Ohio, and 
various other places.  He worked for sometime as a warehouseman for the G.C. 
Murphy Co. in Pittsburgh, but had to give up heavy work, eventually, owing to 
failing health.  His last employment was that of dishwasher in a Canton, Ohio, 
restaurant.  He lived in Canton three years before he succumbed to his physical 
ailments.
  Frank Folk was a very kind, genial and honest man.  Strict honesty, 
friendliness and right-living were his outstanding virtues.  He was highly 
respected by all who knew him.
  His elder brother, Orville A. Folk, upon learning of Frank's death, left on 
the first available train at 4 o'clock last Sunday morning, to bring his 
brother's body to Meyersdale for burial in the White Oak Cemetery beside the 
grave of his deceased wife.
  The body was taken in charge upon its arrival in Meyersdale by Mortician H. R. 
Konhaus who had charge of the burial arrangements.
  Funeral rites were conducted in the Konhaus mortuary chapel at 2:30 o'clock 
Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Howard K. Hilner, pastor of Zion Evangelical Lutheran 
Church, after which the funeral cortege moved to White Oak Cemetery, in Larimer 
Township for interment.

Meyersdale Republican, April 22, 1948