OBIT: Howard R. RINGER, 1979, formerly of Confluence, Somerset County, PA
  
  Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library 
  Transcribed and proofread by John C. Oester.
  
  Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/
  _______________________________________________
  
  HOWARD R. RINGER 
  
  Services were held Sept. 25, 1979, for Howard R. Ringer, Jr., 56 of
  7098 Scripps Crescent, Goleta, CA 93017, former owner-operator of
  Ringer Tri-State Oil Company in Confluence.  He was born Oct. 4, 1922,
  in Confluence.  He died Sunday, Sept. 23, 1979, at Goleta Valley
  Hospital.  The Rev. David Aubrey and the Rev. David Beard officiated
  at the memorial service at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
  followed by private interment at the Goleta Cemetery.  An army veteran
  of service in the South Pacific during World War II, Mr. Ringer
  attended the university of Pittsburgh and married Martha Kurtz in
  Confluence in 1951.  They moved to Santa Barbara, CA in 1968.
  Survivors, in addition to his wife, include two sons, Kenneth Ringer
  and Thomas Ringer, both of Goleta, CA; two daughters, Ann Ringer of
  Goleta, CA, and Sue McKeown of Pismo Beach, CA; and a brother, Dwight
  Ringer of Confluence.
  
  The Republic, October 11, 1979
  
  [R587]