OBIT: Howard R. RINGER, 1943, Confluence, Somerset County, PA

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HOWARD R. RINGER

  Funeral services were conducted for Howard R. Ringer at his home in 
Confluence, Saturday afternoon, Rev. J. S. Shannon, former pastor of the 
Confluence Lutheran Church, coming from his new charge in Millheim to officiate.  
Mr. Ringer died suddenly Wednesday morning, Oct. 6, following a heart attack.  
He was 54 years old.
  Mr. Ringer was owner of the Ringer Independent Oil Co., distributor of 
Richfield products with bulk plants at Confluence, Masontown, W.Va., and 
Oakland, Md.
  He was born in Addison Township.  His father, Elisha Ringer, preceded him in 
death by less than two weeks, having passed away on Sept. 23.  His mother, Mrs. 
Sarah Ellen Ringer, survives, as does his wife, Eva Griffith Ringer, and three 
children, Lt. Dwane Ringer, U.S. Navy Air Corps, stationed at Bolling Air Field, 
Washington, D.C.; Pfc. Howard Ringer, Jr., Army Air Corps, stationed at the Army 
Air Base in Waycross, Ga., and Mrs. James F. Pugh of Confluence; also one 
granddaughter, Ruth Ann Pugh.  These brothers and sisters also survive:  Miss 
Olive Ringer, Addison Township; Mrs. Wm. F. Butler, Brothersvalley Township; 
Ferris C. Ringer, Somerset; Mrs. Irvin Eichorn, Fort Hill R.D.; Mrs. Harry 
Colflesh, Grantsville, Md, Mrs. Omer Coolie, South Connellsville.
  Interment in Addison Cemetery in charge of S. A. Black, mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, October 14, 1943