OBIT: Joseph KIMMEL, 1942, Friedens, Somerset County, PA

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JOSEPH KIMMEL

Kantner Man Found Dead in Parked Auto

  Joseph Kimmel, 30, of Kantner was found dead early Monday morning in an 
automobile which had been parked near Friedens.  Coroner P. C. Dosch and County 
Detective Harry C. Jacobs conducted an investigation and announced that the 
preliminary probe indicated that Kimmel had died as a result of exposure.  Sub-
zero temperatures were reported throughout the County Sunday night and Monday 
morning.
  Coroner Dosch and Detective Jacobs learned that Kimmel had accompanied Harry 
Croyle of Stoystown R.D. 2 to Friedens Sunday night and that later the two men 
and Mildred Smith had gone to Somerset.
  Upon returning to Friedens shortly after midnight it was said that Kimmel 
apparently was asleep in the car.  Croyle left his companion in the machine.  He 
returned shortly before 4 o'clock and was unable to awaken Kimmel.
  Croyle found that his car had been frozen up.  He enlisted the aid of another 
man and pushed the machine to Horner's Garage, located nearby.  There is was 
discovered that Kimmel was dead.  Authorities were then notified.
  Joseph Kimmel had been employed as a trackman by the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad.  He served an enlistment in the Army and was honorably discharged four 
years ago.  His father is dead.  His mother and three sisters survive.

Meyersdale Republican, December 24, 1942