OBIT: Jacob KLINGAMAN, 1941, native of Somerset County, PA

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JACOB KLINGAMAN

  Funeral services were conducted Monday morning in the Meyersdale Church of the 
Brethren for Jacob Klingaman, 71, who died suddenly last Friday night in the 
Somerset Community Hospital.  Cause of his death was cerebral hemorrhage. Rev. 
DeWitt Miller, pastor of the church, officiated.  Interment was in Union 
Cemetery in Meyersdale under the direction of H. R. Konhaus, Meyersdale 
mortician.  The body was viewed by friends at the Konhaus Funeral Home Sunday 
night.
  Mr. Klingaman was born on April 4, 1870, in Somerset County and was a son of 
Noah and Lydia (Miller) Klingaman.  His wife preceded him in death.  Surviving 
are these children: Mrs. Bruce Fike, Meyersdale R.D.; Mrs. James Boyer, Mrs. 
William Fike, Meyersdale; Mrs. John Herwig, Friedens; Mrs. Peter Baer, 
Meyersdale R.D., and Mrs. William Rogers, Silver Springs, Md.  Also surviving 
are 28 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
  Mr. Klingaman had been employed on construction work of the new railroad being 
put in at Shanksville by the Berwind White Coal Co.
 
Meyersdale Republican, November 6, 1941