OBIT: Sanford HARDING, 1931, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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SANFORD HARDING

  Sanford Harding, son of Mrs. Lulu Harding and the late Frederick Harding, died 
at his home in Somerset on Tuesday morning, at 8:45 o'clock, at the age of 70 
years, 3 months and 27 days, following a long illness of a complication of 
diseases.
  Mr. Harding was born in Frostburg, Md., but at an early age moved with his 
parents to Meyersdale, where he grew to manhood and lived the greater part of 
his life.  He married Miss Caroline Crissinger, of Meyersdale, when quite a 
young man, and together they reared a fine family of nine children.
  Mr. Harding was a member of the local Church of the Brethren.  He was an 
industrious and hard working man, and was a good and loving husband and father.  
For a number of years, when the coal boom was on in Meyersdale, he was employed 
as a coal miner, but in later years worked for the Sand Spring Water Company 
with his son, William.  Impaired health, during the last two years, made it 
impossible for him to seek regular employment.  He and his wife lived the last 
year of his life in Somerset with a daughter, at whose home he succumbed.  
Undertaker J. L. Tressler brought the body to Meyersdale and prepared it for 
burial, and removed it to the home of his son, William Harding, on Keystone 
Street.  
  Funeral services will be held on Friday afternoon.  A short service will be 
held at the house at 1:45, after which the funeral cortege will go to the Church 
of the Brethren, where Rev. George Detweiler will preach the regular funeral 
service at 2:00 o'clock.  Interment will be in the Union Cemetery.
  Mr. Harding is survived by his aged mother, Mrs. Lulu Harding, who is now 93 
years old, his wife, Caroline Crissinger Harding, four sons, William, of 
Meyersdale; Frank, of Elk Lick Township; Harry, of Charleston, W.Va., and 
George, of Pittsburgh, also by five daughters, Carrie Harding, of Pittsburgh; 
Mrs. Nora Pugal, of Seattle, Washington; Thelma Dougielo, of McKees Rocks, Pa.; 
Mrs. Esther Zimmerman and Mrs. Ada Lape, of Somerset.  He is also survived by 
three brothers, Joseph, of Baileysville, W.Va.; Herbert, of Meyersdale, and 
Lloyd, of Greenville, Township, and three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Hughes, of 
Lonaconing, Mrs. George Robertson, of Midland, Md., and Miss Nellie Harding, of 
Baltimore.  Seventeen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive 
him.

Meyersdale Republican, May 28, 1931