OBIT: Theodore MERVINE, 1941, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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THEODORE MERVINE

  Theodore Mervine, one of Meyersdale's most beloved and highly esteemed 
citizens, passed peacefully to rest at thirty minutes past midnight Tuesday, 
January 21, following a brief illness from grip and complications.  Death came 
just one week following the celebration of his 83rd birthday anniversary, 
Tuesday, January 14th, at which the aged host was the life of the party, when 
his daughter, Mrs. E. P. Foley, entertained a number of relatives and friends 
with a turkey dinner at the Foley home on Chestnut Street, where Mr. Mervine had 
lived since the death of his wife about 21 years ago.  Up until his last 
illness, Monday of this week, Mr. Mervine had been enjoying unusually good 
health for one of his years.  Within the past two weeks he had attended services 
in the Lutheran church and also was present at the Sunday lesson period of the 
Lutheran Brotherhood, of which for many years he was an honored and loyal 
member.
  Mr. Mervine was a native of Berlin, but located in Meyersdale 46 years ago, 
and until incapacitated by age, labored at his occupation, that of cabinet-
maker, and it is said that he had few equals among those with whom he was 
employed.  During the entire time that the Humanola talking machine factory was 
in operation, he, with his fellow artisans, was engaged in the cabinet 
construction department, and it may be said that there were few better talking 
machines at that time on the market, or that were encased in more imposing 
appearing cabinets.  At the closing of the talking machine factory on account of 
being unable to compete with the larger companies that had been established 
throughout the country, Mr. Mervine devoted his energies to planing mill work, 
carpentering and building, in which handicrafts he also excelled.
  Mr. Mervine was united in marriage, while yet a resident of Berlin, to Miss 
Anna Catherine Farner, of Glen Savage, who with three sons and one daughter, 
preceded him to the spirit world.  Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Marian 
Mealey, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. Grace Quinn and Mrs. Fred Maidens, Washington, D.C.; 
Mrs. Edward P. Foley, with whom he made his home, and who so tenderly cared for 
him during these years.  Eight grandchildren also survive.
  To have known "Dory" Mervine, as he was more intimately called by his friends, 
was to love him and to admire him.  He was truly one of nature's noblemen.  He 
possessed a personality that just seemed to attract friends to him.  His 
pleasant, jolly disposition, the absence of malice or guile in his conversation, 
seems to have been the secret of his long and pleasant sojourn on this earth, 
and as such he will be fondly remembered by all who had the pleasure of his 
acquaintance.
  Funeral services will be conducted at the Foley home on Chestnut Street 
tomorrow (Friday) afternoon, at 1:30 o'clock by the Rev. Howard K. Hilner, 
pastor of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, followed by interment in the Odd 
Fellows Cemetery in Berlin under the direction of H. R. Konhaus, Meyersdale 
mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, January 23, 1941