OBIT: Thomas A. GONDER, 1945, of interest in Somerset County, PA

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library.
Transcribed and proofread by: Richard Boyer.

Copyright 2007.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/
________________________________________________

THOMAS A. GONDER

  Thomas A. Gonder, 61, Oakland druggist, for 30 years, died at his home Monday 
evening, April 16, after an illness of about a year.  He was the son of the late 
Andrew B. and Mary M. Gonder.  He was married in 1910 to Miss Annie West.  
Surviving are his wife, three children, Miss Martha Gonder of Baltimore, Major 
Thomas A. Gonder, Jr., Army Medical Corps, with the 7th Army in Germany, Lt. 
Richard J. Gonder, with the Naval Air Corps in the Pacific area; also the 
following brothers and sisters: Senator B. I. Gonder, W. Andrew Gonder, Miss 
Charlotte Jean Gonder, all of Oakland; Frances E. Gonder, of Valleyford, Wash., 
and Mrs. Lawrence K. Dixon, Washington, D.C.
  Mr. Gonder was a member of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and of Oakland Lodge 
of Masons, and Garrett Lodge Knights of Phythias.  He served as mayor of Oakland 
a number of years ago.  He was a graduate of the University of Maryland.
  Funeral services were held last Thursday in the Episcopal Church, Rev. Austin 
F. Schildwachter, rector, officiating.  Interment in Oakland Cemetery, the 
Masonic Lodge having charge of funeral rites at the grave.

Meyersdale Republican, April 26, 1945