OBIT: John F. SCHROCK, 1946, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN F. SCHROCK

John F. Schrock Latest Victim of Mining Fatality

  John F. Schrock, 57, well known citizen of Meyersdale, was the latest victim 
of a series of mining accidents in the last few weeks.  Mr. Schrock died at 1 
a.m. last Saturday in the Community Hospital, Somerset, to which he was admitted 
after he had been caught under a rock fall in the Enterprise Coal Company mine 
near Garrett, Thursday, sustaining fractures of the pelvis and vertebrae and 
internal injuries.  
  Mr. Schrock was born October 3, 1889, near Meyersdale, a son of the late Hiram 
and Maggie (Maust) Schrock.  Surviving are his wife, Bertha (Werner) Schrock, 
and five children, Irene, Harold and Shirley, all at home; Dorothy, wife of 
Clarence Kenney, Fort Ashby, W.Va., and Elwood Schrock, Meyersdale; one brother 
and four sisters, Lloyd Schrock, Garrett; Mrs. Charles Fogle and Mrs. Samuel 
Fogle, both of Garrett R.D.; Mrs. Henry Murray, Meyersdale, and Mrs. Harry 
Livengood, Pinto, Md.
  Mr. Schrock, who lived at 325 Salisbury Street, was a former Somerset County 
school teacher.  He was a member of the Meyersdale Church of the Brethren.
  Funeral services were held Monday at 2:30 p.m. at the residence, his pastor, 
Rev. S. Loren Bowman, officiating, assisted by Rev. Nelson C. Brown, pastor of 
Amity Reformed Church.  Burial was made in Union Cemetery, under the direction 
of H. R. Konhaus.

Meyersdale Republican, December 24, 1946