OBIT: Ralph V. MAZER, 1989, native of Somerset County, PA
  
  Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library
  Transcribed and proofread by Martha Matsuda 
  
  Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/
  _______________________________________________ 
  
  RALPH V. MAZER
  
    Ralph V. Mazer, 81, of RD 1, Lonaconing, Md., died Friday, Jan. 6,
  1989, at his residence.
    Born Jan. 14, 1907 in Somerset County, he was the son of the late
  William H. and Elizabeth (Suder) Mazer.
    He was a retired farmer and timberman with the Coddington Lumber
  Company of Shaft.  He was a member of Mount Zion United Methodist
  Church, Star Route, Frostburg, Md.
    One brother and one step-brother preceded him in death.
    Survivors include his widow, Nellie (Mankmyer) Mazer; five sons,
  Wayne Mazer, Gerald Mazer, and James Mazer, all of Lonaconing, Md.;
  Bernard Mazer, Glenelg; and Carl Mazer, Frostburg, Md.; two
  daughters, Donna Boone, Springfield, Va.; and Dorla Buckel,
  Grantsville, Md.; three brothers, Merle Mazer, Strasburg, Va.;
  Kenneth Mazer, Salisbury; and Homer Mazer, State College; five
  sisters, Ruth Kinsinger, Grantsville, Md.; Edith Barmoy, LaVale, Md.;
  Alma Meyers, Dorothy Foreman, and Zona Boger, all of Meyersdale, 15
  grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
    Friends were received at the Newman Funeral Home, Grantsville,
  Md.  Services were conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at Mount Zion United
  Methodist Church by the Rev. Joseph Upole.  Interment, Mount Zion
  Cemetery.  Grandsons served as pallbearers.
  
  The Republic, January 12, 1989
  
  [M0629]