OBIT: Max Jerome MAUST, 1943, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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MAX JEROME MAUST

Navy Air Cadet Max Maust Killed in Plane Crash

His Body Brought from Iowa to Salisbury for Burial in His Former Home Town

  Max Jerome Maust, aged 20 years, was killed in the crash of his training 
airplane near the Navy Air Training School at Ottumwa, Iowa, July 28.  The 
complete details of the fatal accident are not available at this time, and may 
never be.
  The unfortunate young man was a cadet with a splendid record during his 
training.  He was a son of Myron and Florence Newman Maust.  He was born in a 
hospital in Cumberland, while they were residents of Salisbury.  The family is 
now located in Sewickley, and left Salisbury about 15 years ago.
  Cadet Maust wrote a letter to his sister, Miss Joyce Maust, the day before his 
fatal crash, informing her that he expected to be home on furlough in about a 
week.  He was a graduate of the Sewickley High School, and before entering the 
service of his country, he was enrolled as a student at Juniata College.
  Funeral services were conducted at Sewickley, after which his body was brought 
to Salisbury, shortly before one o'clock p.m., Sunday, by a Sewickley mortician.  
After it arrived here, it was taken charge of by Stanley M. Thomas, and interred 
under his direction in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, after military rites were conducted at 
the grave by members of Earl H. Opel Post of the American Legion.
  Short talks were delivered at the grave by Rev. A. Jay Replogle, pastor of the 
Salisbury Church of the Brethren, and by Rev. S. D. Sigler, chaplain of the Earl 
H. Opel Post of the American Legion.  Rev. Replogle also read an appropriate 
poem.
  Cadet Maust was a member of the Church of the Brethren.  His father is a 
veteran of World War I.
  The burial was attended by a considerable number of local relatives and 
friends of Cadet Maust.  Relatives and friends in attendance from other 
communities were: Mr. and Mrs. Myron Maust and daughter, Joyce, Sewickley; Mr. 
and Mrs. Arthur Maust, Gettysburg; Dr. and Mrs. Clark Maust and son, Jay, Red 
Lion, Pa.; Mrs. Ed McLaughlin, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Ray Folk and son, Richard, 
Sharon, Pa.; Mrs. Emma Bepler, Pittsburgh; Charles J. Newman, his daughter June 
and son Coville, Jennerstown; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wagner, Mr. and Mrs. Clark 
Wagner, Aliquippa; Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Robinson, and son, Wayne, Derry, Pa.

Meyersdale Republican, August 5, 1943