OBIT: Thomas F. LANSBERRY, 1973, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
    
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    LANSBERRY
    
    Judge Thomas F. Lansberry, 65, of East Union St., Somerset, died
  March 22, 1973, in Meyersdale.  He was born July 23, 1907, in
  Rockwood, the son of the late Orrie R. and Clara Elizabeth Tayman
  Lansberry.  He is survived by his widow, the former Ruth Morgan; a
  daughter, Mrs. Charles B. (Elizabeth) Hargett of Basking Ridge, N.J.;
  and two grandsons, Charles Thomas and Andrew Bruce.  He was a brother
  of George Lansberry of Boston, Mass.  He was a member of Trinity
  Lutheran Church, a past president of Somerset Rotary Club, and
  president of the Somerset County Historical Society.  He had served
  as president of the Sesquicentennial Celebration.  He was also a
  member of Somerset Lodge No. 358 F&AM, Pittsburgh
  Consistory and Johnstown Knights Templar and was an honorary member
  of the Red Cross of Constantine.  He served as presiding judge in
  Somerset County from 1950 until his retirement in 1969 and was
  presently acting as senior judge.  He served as Somerset County
  district attorney from January, 1944, until he was called to serve in
  the United States Navy.  He was a veteran of World War II.  Funeral
  arrangements in charge of the Richard E. Hauger Funeral Home are
  incomplete.

  Daily American  March 23, 1973
  
    
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  Additinal information provided by library staff:

 
  Funeral services for Judge Thomas F. Lansberry will be
  conducted Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the Richard E. Hauger Funeral Home
  with the Rev. H. James Meyers officiating.  Interment, Monday
  morning, Uniondale Cemetery, Pittsburgh.  Family will receive friends
  today, Saturday, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. in the funeral home.  In
  lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Penn Woods Council,
  Boy Scouts of America, or the Somerset County Historical and
  Genealogical Society.  Masonic service, 8 p.m., Saturday.
  
  Daily American  March 24, 1973