OBIT: Robert L. MEESE, 1940, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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ROBERT L. MEESE

  Robert L. Meese, a highly esteemed citizen of Garrett County, Maryland, died 
in the Miner's Hospital, Frostburg, Md., Dec. 10, 1940, after being a medical 
patient there for a month.  His death was caused by a cerebral embolysm.  His 
age was 47 years, 8 months and 15 days.
  He was a son of Mrs. Mary (Wetmiller) Meese, and the late Daniel D. Meese, and 
is survived by his wife, Mary (Albright) Meese, and the following children: Mrs. 
Grace Paul of Garrett County, Md.; Glenn, Margaret, Merle, Nellie and Mary, at 
home.  He is also survived by his mother and these brothers and sisters: Reed of 
Pocahontas, Pa., George of Frostburg, Md., Leroy, Samuel and Woodrow of 
Cohocton, N.Y., Mrs. Benjamin Deist of Friedens, Pa., Mrs. Robert Landis, 
residing in Elk Lick Township, Pa., Mrs. Carleton Layman of Frostburg, Md., and 
Mrs. William Kemp of Canton, Ohio.
  His funeral was held at the Greenville Lutheran Church, near Pocahontas, last 
Friday, at 10:30 a.m.  The service was conducted by the pastor, Rev. S. D. 
Sigler, of Salisbury, and was largely attended.
  The burial was in the Greenville Cemetery, under the direction of Stanley M. 
Thomas, mortician, of Salisbury.

Meyersdale Republican, December 19, 1940