OBIT: Charles PLITT, 1942, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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CHARLES PLITT

  Charles Plitt, son of Charles and Herrietta (Newkirk) Plitt, natives of 
Germany, and pioneer residents of Meyersdale, and himself a citizen for nearly 
three-quarters of a century, died Tuesday evening at 8:20 o'clock in the 
Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, Md., where he had been a patient for the past 
four weeks, having undergone a serious surgical operation.
  Charles Plitt was born in Johnstown, March 16, 1861, and at the age of about 
nine years, with his parents, he located in Meyersdale, and had resided here 
practically all his life.  He was educated in the local public schools, and when 
he quit school, he spent his young manhood as a clerk in local merchandising 
establishments.  Later he was engaged during brief periods in the meat business 
at Hyndman and Glencoe.  In the latter 80's he accepted a position as salesman 
in a large department store at Leechburg.
  During this time, on January 18, 1887, he figured in a double wedding, when he 
and his bride, Mary E. Fawner, and the latter's half-brother, C. L. Gardner and 
his bride, Annie Hibner, all of Meyersdale, were united in marriage in the 
parlor of the Somerset House, Somerset, by the late Dr. D. P. K. Lavan, then 
pastor of the Evangelical Church at Somerset.
  Mr. and Mrs. Plitt, following their marriage, spent two years in Leechburg 
before relocating in Meyersdale, when they returned and opened the first 
restaurant here, which was located in a portion of the building now owned and 
occupied by Santo Lucente as a residence and fruit and grocery store.  After 
twelve years Mr. and Mrs. Plitt retired from business temporarily and a few 
years later conducted a grocery store in the room adjoining their home at 220 
North Street, and in which enterprise they continued for a period of eight 
years, when ill health and the cares of business caused them to discontinue the 
grocery store.
  Mr. Plitt, however, later served for two terms as assessor of Meyersdale 
borough, following which he retired on account of his health, which began to 
fail perceptibly, and which culminated in the operation from which he failed to 
rally.
  Mrs. Plitt was almost constantly with her husband during the time that he was 
in the hospital and was at his bedside about all the time that the rules of the 
hospital allowed.  Hoping against hope, yet trusting that he would survive the 
operation, her hopes were rudely shattered upon the announcement of her 
husband's death on Tuesday evening.
  Mr. Plitt possessed a likeable disposition and was highly esteemed by all who 
knew him.  He was kind hearted, jovial, as well as honest in all of his 
dealings, and as such he will ever be remembered by his host of friends that he 
made and kept during his long residence here.
  Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary E. Plitt; also a brother, Edward C. Plitt, 
who is ill and being cared for at the home of Miss Sadie Just, Broadway, and a 
sister, Mrs. Minnie Leekey, of Hickory, Washington County, Pa.  A son, Clare 
Chester Plitt, who, had he lived until last Tuesday, the date of his father's 
death, would have been 55 years of age, passed away at the age of nine months.
  Funeral services will be conducted this (Friday) afternoon at two o'clock at 
the Plitt home, 220 North Street, by the Rev. John B. Warman, pastor of the 
Methodist Church, in which both Mr. and Mrs. Plitt held membership practically 
all of their lives.  Interment will be made in Union Cemetery under the 
direction of W. C. Price & Son, local morticians.
  Among the out-of-town friends who are here for the funeral are Mr. and Mrs. W. 
A. Lloyd, and Mrs. Walter Plitt, Somerset; Mrs. Harry Bosler, Johnstown.

Meyersdale Republican, December 10, 1942