OBIT: George Willard SCHRAMM, 1945, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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GEORGE WILLARD SCHRAMM

  George Willard Schramm died in the Somerset Community Hospital at 7:30 p.m. on 
Wednesday, April 11th.  He had been ill since last fall, was in a serious 
condition for the last month, and was a patient in the hospital for 12 days 
prior to his death.  He resided on East Main Street in Somerset, and has worked 
for 18 years in the Irvin Dillon barbershop.  He learned his trade in the shop 
of the late Fred H. Petry in Salisbury.
  Mr. Schramm was born in Salisbury, son of George and Ida M. (Smouse) Schramm, 
on July 13, 1905, and was 39 years, 8 months and 28 days old at his death.  He 
was a member of the Somerset Christian Church and of the Fraternal Order of 
Eagles.  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen (Hauger) Schramm, and one 
daughter, Phyllis, a senior in Somerset High School.  He is also survived by 
three sisters: Mrs. Jona S. Lichty of Salisbury; Mrs. R. I. Straub, Somerset, 
and Mrs. Wilbur G. Foster of Akron, Ohio; and one brother, Paul Schramm, of 
Wilkinsburg.  A sister, Mrs. Earl Wagner, died in January of this year.
  Funeral services were conducted in the Walter S. Hoffman funeral home in 
Somerset by his pastor, Rev. J. E. Messenger, last Saturday, at 2:30 p.m.  
Interment in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Salisbury.
  Besides the relatives and friends in Somerset and Salisbury, the funeral was 
attended by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schramm and daughter, Sally B., of Wilkinsburg; 
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Rice and children, Roxie Ann and Woodrow Jr., Mrs. Ida 
Smouse and daughter, Virginia, Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Strickler, Mr. and Mrs. 
Robert Smouse, Mrs. Edna Shaner and Mrs. Maude Mulroy, all of Scottdale; Mrs. 
Wilbur G. Foster of Akron, Ohio, and Edward Lichty of Wilkinsburg.

Meyersdale Repubican, April 19, 1945