OBIT: John R. GERHARD, 1946, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN R. GERHARD

Gerhard Stricken On Street While Talking to Son

  John R. Gerhard, 50, well known Somerset Bus Company driver, collapsed on a 
street corner in Somerset last Saturday night, and expired while being rushed to 
the Community Hospital.
  Mr. Gerhard, who had been a bus driver for more than 23 years, made his last 
run to Johnstown last Friday evening.  He was to have worked Saturday, but, not 
feeling well in the morning, decided to remain at home and fix the porch roof.  
He had been under treatment of his physician for several years, but continued to 
work regularly, often making extra runs to Rockwood or Pittsburgh.  Saturday 
evening he visited his doctor and later was met by his son, Edward, who was 
talking to him when he fell to the street.
  He was born in Upper Turkeyfoot Township in August, 1895, a son of William and 
Mary (Younkin) Gerhard.  After making his home in Somerset, he worked for the 
Schell Hardware Company for three years before becoming an employee of the bus 
company.
  Surviving are his wife, Alta Hostetler Gerhard; one daughter, Leona, wife of 
Elmer Watkins; one son, Edward, and a granddaughter, Mary Ann, all at home.
  These brothers and one sister also survive: Ira Gerhard, Brushton; Oran 
Gerhard, East McKeesport; Elmer Gerhard, Connellsville; Charles Gerhard, Drexel 
Hill; Frank Gerhard, Middleburg; and one sister, Mrs. Maude Countryman, Somerset 
R.D. 6.  He was a member of the Kingwood Odd Fellows Lodge.
  Funeral services were conducted at Grace Evangelical Church, Tuesday afternoon 
at 4, by Rev. W. M. Kinerd of the Somerset Evangelical circuit, with interment 
in Somerset County Memorial Park under direction of Charles R. Swauger.

Meyersdale Republican, August 1, 1946