OBIT: John ORBIN, Rev., 1916, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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Orbin, Rev. John

MINISTER'S SUDDEN DEATH

  Rev. John Orbin at One Time a Meyersdale Minister dies at Washington, Pa. of 
Heart Disease. On Sunday Mr. George Hocking of this place received a telegram 
from Dr. Walter B. Orbin, from Washington, Pa. that his father had died suddenly 
that day of heart disease. The telegram was read at the evening service by the 
local pastor of the Methodist church, Rev. J. C. Matteson, and it was voted by 
the congregation that a message of sympathy be sent to the family with a floral 
offering from the church whose beloved pastor, Rev. Orbin was 27 years ago. On 
Sunday morning, Rev. Orbin preached in the Washington church, taking the text, 
"In the midst of life we are in death" being almost prophetic of his own life. 
After the service he went to the home of a friend and was taken ill and in an 
hour and a half he was dead. Mr. Orbin was born in Bradford and on Tuesday of 
this week he was to have celebrated his 76th birthday anniversary. The ministers 
of the Pittsburg conference had planned to give a special offering to the 
hospital of which he was chaplain and in which he was so greatly interested, as 
a birthday remembrance to him. The Civil War broke out and he enlisted in the 
87th Regiment Pa. Volunteers and served throughout as a color bearer. At the 
close of the war he entered the ministry, becoming a member of the Pittsburg 
conference in 1866, and served many charges, only retiring three years ago from 
a pastorate, but not from active service. The widow Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Orbin; 
one daughter, Anna, and two sons, Frank and Dr. Walter B. Orbin survive.

Meyersdale Commercial, May 4, 1916