OBIT: Frank Hoblitzell PRICE, 1947, native of Somerset County, PA

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FRANK H. PRICE

  Frank Hoblitzell Price, aged 57 years, of Jenkins, Ky., died in a hospital 
there on Friday, Sept. 3, following an illness of ten months duration.
  Born in Meyersdale, Mr. Price was the third son of the late Kennedy and Grace 
(Hoblitzell) Price, and had been in the employ of the Kentucky Division of the 
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., for 33 years, serving as chief clerk, in Van 
Lear, Ky.
  He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Edna Payne of Meyersdale, and one 
son, Lt. Cmdr. Frank H. Price Jr., serving on the USS Missouri, which recently 
left Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on a South American cruise.  He is also survived by 
one grandchild, two brothers, Edwin R. Price of Wheelwright, Ky., and Kennedy 
Price, Jr., of Brownsville, Pa.  One brother, James H. Price, preceded him in 
death.  Mr. Price was a member of the Methodist Church and of the Meyersdale 
Masonic Lodge.
  The body was brought to Meyersdale by W. C. Price and Son and remained at the 
Price Funeral Home until the day of the funeral, when removal was made to the 
home of Mrs. Price's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Otis O. Cook, 
Meyers Ave., where funeral services were conducted at 3 o'clock on Monday 
afternoon by Rev. F. J. Gotjen, pastor of the Methodist Church.  Interment was 
made in the family plot in Union Cemetery, under the direction of W. C. Price 
and Son.

Meyersdale Republican, September 11, 1947