OBIT: William Merle LECKEMBY, 1947, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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WILLIAM MERLE LECKEMBY

  William Merle Leckemby, 44, of Hyndman, died of lobar pneumonia, Friday night, 
February 21, in Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, three hours after he was 
admitted.
  Born near Hyndman, he was a son of Mrs. Cora Kennell of Pittsburgh, and the 
late William Leckemby.  He was a member of the Hyndman Methodist Church, and a 
veteran of World War II having served 4 1/2 years, of which 31 months were spent 
in England and France.  Mr. Leckemby was employed as a Baltimore and Ohio 
brakeman at the time of his death.
  Surviving are four children - Mrs. Dale Kipp, Mrs. Linwood Printy, William M. 
Leckemby, Jr., and Howard R. Leckemby, one grandchild, Leroy Lee Kipp, all of 
Hyndman; four half-brothers and sisters - Leroy Kennell, Eugene Kennell and Mrs. 
Alberta Kennell, Turtle Creek, and Mrs. J. F. Trogolione, Wilkinsburg.  Also 
surviving are two aunts - Mrs. Walter Gaumer, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. John Austin, 
Meyersdale.
  Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon, February 25, at 3 o'clock 
at the Zeigler Funeral Home by Rev. John Bucher, pastor of the Hyndman Reformed 
Church.  Burial in Hyndman Cemetery with the Oscar Jordan Post Veterans of 
Foreign Wars conducting military rites.

Meyersdale Republican, March 6, 1947