OBIT: Bruce MILLER, 1930, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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BRUCE MILLER

Meyersdale Man Succumbs to Wounds Received Thirty Days Ago

  The injuries sustained by Bruce Miller, of Meyersdale, on Sept. 16, by getting 
crushed between the cylinder of a concrete mixer and the bin containing many 
tons of material used in making concrete pavement, while at work on a road 
contract for M. F. McCabe & Co., near Boswell, proved fatal just one month after 
the accident.
  The death of the unfortunate young man came as a great surprise to his family 
and friends, and to the hospital staff as well, for up to within a few hours of 
his death, he appeared to be on the sure road to recovery.
  Mr. Miller's major injuries consisted of broken pelvis bones and an oblique 
fracture of the right femur.  The latter injury was the most serious and the 
surgeons decided that he would never be able to use his leg again unless he had 
a silver plate inserted along side the fractured bone.  He had been a patient in 
the Memorial Hospital, Johnstown, since the day of the accident and had the best 
surgical care available.
  An operation for the purpose above stated was made this (Thursday) morning and 
was completed about 10 a.m., apparently with success, at first, but at 12 
o'clock, noon, the patient expired without having recovered from the effects of 
the anesthetic.  His death was entirely unexpected, as up to the time of the 
operation he seemed to be making rapid recovery.  He was in the best of spirits 
and laughed and joked with members of the hospital staff just before going under 
the ether for the operation.
  Bruce Miller was aged 35 years and was one of the most efficient and 
trustworthy men employed by M. F. McCabe & Co., road contractors, during the 
last few years.  He was an expert concrete worker and a young man of sterling 
character.
  He was the only son of the late Mahlon Miller and was married to Nettie Maust, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson P. Maust of Salisbury.  He is survived by his 
wife, one son, Junior, aged 6, and one daughter, Daphene, aged 3, and by four 
sisters, Mrs. Charles Buckle of Cumberland, Md.; Mrs. Norman Patton of 
Grantsville, Md.; Mrs. Harry Pope, of Meyersdale, and Miss June Miller, a 
student nurse in the Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, Md.; also by his step-
mother, Mrs. Mahlon (Kreitzburg) Miller, of Meyersdale.  One sister, Mrs. Martha 
Fike, preceded him in death.
  His body was brought to Meyersdale by Funeral Director W. C. Price to be 
prepared for burial Sunday afternoon.  The funeral party will leave the family 
home on Grant Street at 1:30 p.m. and proceed to the Church of the Brethren 
where funeral services will be conducted by the pastor, Rev. George L. 
Detweiler, followed by interment in Union Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, October 16, 1930