OBIT: Ralph F. ICKES, 1944, native of Somerset County, PA

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RALPH F. ICKES

  Ralph F. Ickes died March 27 at the Cresson Sanitarium where he had been a 
patient for several months.  He was born in Meyersdale, April 19, 1917, the son 
of the late George Ickes and Mrs. Nettie (Imler) Ickes, and was employed in 
Baltimore prior to his illness.  Besides his mother he is survived by seven 
brothers and two sisters - Ross and Bruce, both of Altoona; Paul and Homer of 
Johnstown; Clarke, with the armed forces in Kansas; Ranson, with the army in 
Hawaii; Frederick, in Baltimore; Mrs. Herbert Stein, Salisbury, and Annie, 
Muncy, Pa.
  Funeral services were held this (Thursday) afternoon at the Ickes home on 
North Street, at 4 o'clock, conducted by Rev. R. M. Dunkelberger, pastor of Zion 
Evangelical Lutheran Church.  Interment in Union Cemetery.  R. Reich and Son, 
morticians, had charge of funeral arrangements.

Meyersdale Republican, March 30 and April 6, 1944

[Note: Apr 6th news article listed Annie from Laurelton, Pa.]