OBIT: Oscar Porter POORBAUGH, 1973, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  OSCAR POORBAUGH
  
    Oscar Porter Poorbaugh, 86, of 418 N. Potomac St., Hagerstown, Md.,
  formerly of Johnstown, died June 9, 1973, in Washington County
  Hospital, Hagerstown.  Born Jan. 8, 1887, in Glencoe, he was a son of
  Bruce and Ellen (Wagaman) Poorbaugh.  He was preceded in death by his
  parents; a son, Herbert; two sisters and four brothers.
    Surviving are his widow, the former Gladys Beck; three children,
  Miss Vivian Poorbaugh and Mrs. Geraldine Brant, and Kenneth
  Poorbaugh, all of Johnstown; and a stepson, Donald Mosholder, of
  Orlando, Fla.; also five grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren; two
  brothers, Norman Poorbaugh of Hyndman; Thomas of Glencoe; and a
  sister, Mrs. Mabel Shipley of Berlin.
    He was a member of Hagerstown United Church of Christ and
  Hagerstown Elks Lodge, and was a retired supervisor for Fairchild
  Aircraft Corporation of Hagerstown.
    In his earlier life he was a school teacher in Northampton Township
  and had been an accountant for Cambria Steel Company.
    Funeral service was held Tuesday afternoon at
  Picking-Treece-Bennett Mortuary in Johnstown, with the Rev. Maurice
  Smith officiating.  Interment in Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown.
  
  Meyersdale Republican, June 14, 1973
  
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