OBIT: Augusta (Seigner) HARDING, 1940, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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HARDING

Chief Cook At County Home Dies While Working

  Mrs. Augusta (Seigner) Harding, for 13 years chief cook at the Somerset County 
Home and Hospital, collapsed while at work in the institution kitchen about 5 
Sunday evening.
  Before aid could reach her, she was dead.  Coroner F. E. Sass of Boswell was 
called and declared death was due to coronary occlusion and death was 
instantaneous. 
  Mrs. Harding, 60, is the wife of James Harding of Meyersdale.  For 13 years 
she has served in official capacity at the county home and hospital and had not 
complained of feeling ill Sunday.  
  At the time of her fatal illness she was seated in a chair in the kitchen, 
directing the work of the assistants.  Suddenly, she toppled from the chair and 
was dead by the time medical assistance reached her.
  Mrs. Harding was born in Essen, Germany, the daughter of Paul and Mary (Smith) 
Seigner, August 4, 1879.
  Besides her husband, Mrs. Harding is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J. F. 
Wolfram, Lansing, Mich.; Mrs. Clark Wagner, Salisbury; Mrs. Homer McKenzie, 
Meyersdale; one son, James, Jr., Weberville, Mich., and six grandchildren, Mrs. 
John Niland, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. William Bowman and Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher, 
Meyersdale, and ??*.

Meyersdale Republican, May 9, 1940

*The obit ends suddenly and does not reappear in the paper.