OBIT: Lawrence Homer FOLK, 1941, Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, PA

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LAWRENCE HOMER FOLK

  Lawrence Homer Folk, born May 4, 1892, in Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, 
Pa., died Aug. 26, 1941, at his home in Frostburg, Md., aged 49 years, 3 months 
and 22 days.  He was a World War veteran and was a son of Lincoln and Harriet 
Miller Folk.  His death was caused by coronary thrombosis, a heart ailment.
  Mr. Folk died very suddenly and unexpectedly.  He had been employed by Sleeman 
Bros., a Frostburg contracting and building firm, during the last few years, and 
on the day of his death came home from work, apparently in good health.  He ate 
his supper, and at about 8:30 p.m. fell to the floor dead.
  Most of his life was lived in Salisbury, where he was employed a long time by 
the W. E. Harding Company, at erecting billboards.
  Soon after his death, Stanley M. Thomas, Salisbury mortician, was summoned to 
take his body to Salisbury and prepare it for burial.
  The funeral was held in Salisbury at the home of his brother-in-law and 
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hanft, with services conducted by Rev. S. D. Sigler, 
pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church.
  Burial was in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery under the direction of Mortician Thomas, 
with members of the local American Legion Post taking part in the funeral rites.
  Mr. Folk is survived by his wife, Josephine, to whom he was joined in Wedlock 
in 1917; also by his mother, Mrs. Harriet Folk, and a brother, Ray, both of 
Niverton, and by these sisters: Evora, wife of Lewis Hanft, and Florence, wife 
of Simon Lee, both of Salisbury; Mrs. Alma Miller of Ravenna, Ohio; Edith, wife 
of Solomon Baker, of Montgomeryville, Pa., and Mrs. Lydia Darrah of Kent, Ohio.

Meyersdale Republican, September 4, 1941