OBIT: Robert and Emma (Custer) PUGH, 1932, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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EMMA & ROBERT PUGH

Double Fatality Near County Seat

Robert Pugh and Wife Both Dead, Due to Being Struck by Automobile

Driver of Car Charged with Manslaughter

  Mrs. Emma Pugh, aged 47, widow of Robert Pugh, died Monday afternoon in the 
Somerset Community Hospital as the result of injuries suffered Tuesday night of 
last week when she and her husband were struck by an automobile along the 
Stoyestown road.  Mr. Pugh died a few hours after the accident.
  Attorney John Zevely, of Morgantown, W.Va., driver of the car which struck Mr. 
and Mrs. Pugh, was arrested following the accident and was released after 
posting $2,000 bond to answer a charge of manslaughter.
  Mr. and Mrs. Pugh were walking to Somerset to attend a Grange meeting when 
Attorney Zevely, who appears to have attempted to drive around another car was 
unable to get back in the regular traffic channel in time to avoid striking Mr. 
and Mrs. Pugh.
  Mr. Pugh suffered a fracture of the skull and passed away a few hours after he 
was admitted to the Somerset Community Hospital.  Mrs. Pugh's injuries consisted 
of a fracture of the skull, fractures of both legs, a fracture of the right arm 
and internal injuries.  She remained in a semi-conscious condition since the 
time of the accident and was not aware of her husband's death.
  Mrs. Pugh was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Custer.  Her mother preceded 
her to the grave.  She is survived by her father and the following children:  
Mrs. Violet Turner, of Ralphton; Mrs. Maude Wills, of Somerset; Bert Pugh, of 
Hooversville; Mrs. Gladys Faidley, of Gray; Ethel, Donald, Sibyl, Dorothy, 
Warren, Grace and Dale, all at home.
  She was a sister of Walter and Roy Custer, both of Hooversville, and Mrs. 
James Corbett, of Stoyestown.
  Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the 
Pugh home along the Stoyestown Road by Rev. Dr. Earl C. Weaver, pastor of the 
Somerset United Brethren Church.  Interment was in St. John's United Brethren 
Church Cemetery, in charge of Charles R. Hauger, Somerset mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, November 17, 1932