OBIT: Edgar P. PHILSON, 1972, Berlin, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by John C. Oester. Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ EDGAR P. PHILSON Edgar P. Philson, 84, of Berlin, died May 17, 1972, in Berlin. Born April 4, 1888, in Berlin, he was a son of the late William F. and Minnie (Brubaker) Philson. Surviving are these sisters and brother: Miss Elizabeth Philson, Cumberland, Md.; Mrs. Bertha Landis, Berlin RD 1; Gertrude (Philson) Musser and Albert W. Philson, both of Berlin; and Leora (Philson) Eccles, Lansdale. He was a veteran of World War and served in France with the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He was a retired accountant for the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and the Merrill Coal Company of Garrett. He was a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Berlin and the Harry Fisher Post of the American Legion there. Funeral service was held Saturday morning in Johnson and Son Funeral Home, Berlin, with Rev. Robert Ardell Miller officiating. Interment in Berlin IOOF Cemetery. Meyersdale Republican, May 25, 1972 [P0517]