OBIT: James B. MUSSER, Rev., 1946, Rockwood, Somerset County, PA

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JAMES B. MUSSER

Rockwood Pastor Found Dead in Bed
Death of Rev. J. B. Musser Believed to Have Been Caused by Bee Stings

  Rev. James B. Musser, pastor of the Evangelical and Reformed Church of 
Rockwood, died in his sleep at the parsonage early last Sunday morning.  Death 
is believed to have been caused by a heart attack which resulted from multiple 
bee stings.
  About ten days ago Rev. Musser visited Charles Critchfield's apiary and while 
looking at the bees was attacked by an angry swarm.  It was thought at the time 
he would die from the effects of the stings.  The excitement and pain brought on 
a heart attack then.  After more than a week in bed he was recuperating nicely 
and had walked downtown on Saturday.  William D. Wable, who, with his wife, 
looks after the parsonage and ministered to the pastor's needs, found him dead 
in bed Sunday morning.
  Rev. Musser was born in Lincoln, Lancaster County, February 25, 1881, a son of 
Edward and Sarah Musser.  In 1907 he was graduated from Franklin and Marshall 
College, Lancaster.  He was ordained by the Lancaster classis, August 21, 1910.  
He served charges at Lititz, Orwigsburg, Elwood City, the Glade charge near 
Berlin, McKeansburg, Maytown, Marietta and Hublesburg.  He served as secretary 
to the Lancaster County School Association for six years.  He accepted the 
charge at Rockwood about four and a half years ago.
  In 1916 he was married to Mary Ellen Long of Manheim, who died Thanksgiving 
morning, 1939. He is survived by a sister, Miss Emma Musser, Lincoln, and a 
brother, Charles Musser, Lansdowne.
  Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Rockwood 
Reformed Church, in charge of Rev. George L. Roth, pastor of the Somerset 
Reformed Church.  The body was removed by Mills & Mickey, Rockwood morticians, 
to Lincoln on Wednesday, for further services and burial in the Lincoln 
cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, August 1, 1946