OBIT: A. Preston RINGLER, 1944, native of Somerset County, PA

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A. PRESTON RINGLER

  A. Preston Ringler, aged 50, son of the late Charles E. and Minnie Walker 
Ringler, died very suddenly at his home in Hanover, Pa., on Friday, March 10.
  He and his family moved to Hanover last October where he taught school in the 
Hanover High School.
  He was born in Stoneycreek Township and was educated in the rural schools of 
Somerset County, later graduating from Gettysburg College.  He chose teaching as 
his life's work and taught school in Madison, Wis., in New Jersey, and in 
Bellefonte, Boswell and Somerset, Pa.  He was a teacher in the Somerset High 
School for 15 years.
  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary (Rishel) Ringler and these children: 
Harold, Robert, and Mary Ann, all at home.  Also his mother, of Berlin, and two 
sisters, Mrs. Dorsey Barron and Mrs. Budd K. Shaulis, both of Friedens. 
  Mr. Ringler served overseas in World War I as Corporal in Co. G, 319th Inf., 
80th Division.
  The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful with many messages of 
sympathy, as Mr. Ringler was held in the highest esteem in Somerset and in his 
new home in Hanover.
  He joined the United Brethren Church in Shanksville in his youth.
  Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., at the Hauger Funeral Home, 
Somerset.  Rev. George Doherty of the United Brethren Church, Hanover, assisted 
by Rev. W. R. Fisher of the United Brethren Church, Shanksville, officiated.
  Interment in the Somerset County Memorial Park with military rites by the 
Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Meyersdale Republican, March 16, 1944