OBIT: Richard MANKAMYER, 1941, native of Somerset County, PA

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RICHARD MANKAMYER

  Richard Mankamyer, aged 85 years, 7 months and 29 days, died at 10:15 o'clock 
Thursday, Feb. 20, 1941, at the home of his son and daughter-in-law, Rev. and 
Mrs. Emory I. Mankamyer, of Wine Street, South Connellsville.  He had been 
bedfast 11 months.
  Mr. Mankamyer was born June 22, 1855, near Garrett, Somerset County, a son of 
the late Rev. Christian and Mary (Smearmund) Mankamyer.  He was a farmer and 
resided 75 years in Larimer Township before coming to South Connellsville in 
December 1939, to make his home with his son.
  During his life in Larimer Township, Mr. Mankamyer served 16 years as school 
director and a similar number of years as road supervisor.  He was a member of 
St. John's Evangelical Church, near White Oak, for 65 years and had been a lay 
delegate a number of times to the annual and general conference of the 
Evangelical Church.
  Mr. Mankamyer was married twice, his first wife being Miss Ida B. Witt, who 
preceded him in death 21 years ago.  Ten children were born to this union, seven 
of whom survive.  August 15, 1923, Mr. Mankamyer married Susan Bittner McGarey 
of Connellsville and she died June 5, 1936.
  Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Effie Compton and William H. 
Mankamyer, both of Sand Patch, Mrs. Ivy Murray and Richard A. Mankamyer, both of 
Akron, Ohio, Mrs. Pearl Bender of Knox, Pa., Mrs. Elizabeth Murray of Meyersdale 
and Rev. Mankamyer at whose home his death occurred.  He also leaves 33 
grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren and three brothers, Joseph Mankamyer of 
Meyersdale, C. S. Mankamyer of Sand Patch, and John Mankamyer of Somerset.
  The funeral was held Monday, Feb. 24, with a prayer at the home of Rev. 
Mankamyer at 11:00 o'clock in the morning in charge of Rev. Elmer A. Schultz, 
pastor of the First United Brethren Church.  The body was then taken to St. 
John's Evangelical Church where services were conducted at 2:00 o'clock by his 
pastor, Rev. G. O. Bishop.  Burial was made in the church cemetery in charge of 
Funeral Director Charles A. McCormick.

Meyersdale Republican, March 13, 1941