OBIT: James B. HOLDERBAUM, 1943, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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JAMES B. HOLDERBAUM

  James B. Holderbaum, 89, a retired hardware merchant and one of Somerset's 
best-known residents, died Tuesday afternoon at his home at 307 West Church St.  
He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last Sunday and had been unconscious since 
that time.
  He was proprietor of a hardware store in Somerset for many years prior to his 
retirement.  His entire life was spent in Somerset.
  His wife, the former Annie Jones of Johnstown, died in 1904.  Surviving are 
six children: Mrs. John S. Miller and John I. Holderbaum, both of Somerset; Mrs. 
Madge Siebert, Fairmont, W.Va.; Robert P., Buffalo, N.Y.; Mrs. Ethel Savage, 
Scranton, and Miss Harriet Holderbaum, at home.  Also surviving are 11 
grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
  Mr. Holderbaum was a member of the Methodist Church, the Masonic order and the 
I.O.O.F.
  Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the 
Holderbaum home by Rev. W. L. Crawford, pastor of the Methodist church.  
Interment will be in the Union Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, November 18, 1943