OBIT: Homer Harrison GNAGEY, 1947, Boynton, Somerset County, PA

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HOMER H. GNAGEY

  Homer Harrison Gnagey, farmer and dairyman, died at his home in Boynton at 6 
a.m. on Saturday, September 27 of coronary occlusion.  He recently had several 
heart attacks, and had been taken to Hazel McGilvery Hospital to recover.  He 
came home on Monday of last week and appeared to be steadily improving although 
he was remaining in bed.  About 4 o'clock on Saturday morning he complained of 
pains in his legs and about his body, and in a couple of hours he passed away of 
a blood clot in the coronary artery.
  Mr. Gnagey began his working life as an electrician for the Duquesne Light 
Co., and during his employment lasting 15 years with that company, he was 
married to Miss Kathleen Craft on August 14, 1912 in Chambersburg, Pa., where 
she lived.  In 1921, he moved on the farm.
  He has been dairying for 18 years, and in 1946 bought out the Paul Miller milk 
route covering Salisbury and West Salisbury.
  He was born in Grantsville, Md. on December 31, 1889, son of Jonas and 
Elizabeth (Swauger) Gnagey and was 57 years, 8 months and 27 days in age at his 
death.  In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Homer of Turtle 
Creek, Pa., and Walter of Boynton; five brothers, Edward of Washington, Pa.; 
William of Elk Lick Township; Harry of Warren, Pa.; Elmer of East Orange, and 
Blaine of Albuquerque, New Mexico; five sisters, Mrs. Mary Horne of Boxehead, 
Wisconsin; Mrs. Cora Lininger of Waterloo, Iowa; Mrs. Lulu Parson of Delmer, 
Delaware; Mrs. Annie Stanton of Grantsville, Md., and Mrs. Olive Loechel of 
Salisbury; and four grandchildren.
  Funeral services were conducted at the home at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 
30, with Rev. J. B. Warman, former Methodist minister here and in Meyersdale, 
officiating.  Interment in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in charge of mortician Stanley 
M. Thomas of Salisbury.

Meyersdale Republican, October 2, 1947