OBIT: John MARKER, 1941, Black Township, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN MARKER

  John Marker, prominent retired farmer of Black Township, passed peacefully 
away at his home, Saturday morning, June 28, 1941, at 10 o'clock following a 
short illness of pneumonia
  He was born January 15, 1876, the son of Jacob and Sara Meyers Marker, both 
deceased.  In 1893 he was united in holy matrimony to Emma Mankamyer.  To this 
union four children were born, three of whom survive, Mrs. Daniel Critchfield, 
Meyersdale, Ira M., Boswell and George E., Rockwood.  Also surviving are these 
sisters and brothers: L. M. Marker, El Paso, Texas; Mrs. Francis Snyder, 
Wichita, Kansas; Mrs. Wilson Landis, Shanksville; Mrs. Sara Hay, Mrs. J. R. 
Miller, and Dennis Marker, all of Rockwood.  Nine grandchildren and one great-
grandchild also survive.
  He will be sadly missed by all who knew him, having been born, reared and 
lived his entire life in Rockwood.  He was a devoted husband, a loving father, a 
kind neighbor and a faithful member of the Rockwood Church of the Brethren.
  Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at 2:30 from that church by 
the pastor, W. F. Berkebile.  Interment in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, under the 
direction of Mills & Mickey, Rockwood morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, July 10, 1941