OBIT: A. Beam SELLERS, 1943, native of Somerset County, PA

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A. BEAM SELLERS

  A. Beam Sellers, 66, a retired businessman of Somerset, of outstanding 
character and accomplishments, passed away at his home on North Center Ave., 
Tuesday evening.  He had been a semi-invalid for several years.
  He was a native of Meyersdale, born April 29, 1877, a son of Nelson and Susan 
(Beam) Sellers.  His mother died when he was only nine years old.  He was reared 
in the home of his uncle, Elder Urias Braucher, a minister of the Church of the 
Brethren, who lived near Somerset.
  His educational advantages were limited to the public schools of Meyersdale 
and Somerset, but he was an apt pupil and an inveterate and discriminating 
reader, and acquired a literary education far above the average.  Among his 
varied accomplishments was that of writing some very creditable poems.  He was 
an interesting conversationalist and took a keen interest in all moral and 
spiritual affairs pertaining to the welfare of his fellowman.  He was active in 
church and Sunday school work and for many years taught the Ladies Bible class 
in the Somerset Church of the Brethren.
  At the age of 12 years he entered the employ of Ferner Bros. who conducted one 
of the leading shoe stores in Somerset for many years.  He remained with that 
firm for 43 years as a salesman and store manager.  In 1915 he married Miss 
Marian Ferner, only daughter of Albert H. Ferner, one of his employers.  For 
four years after his father-in-law's death, he was in full charge of the 
management of the Ferner store, until he retired owing to failing health.
  Surviving are his wife and one son, Capt. Alvin Ferner Sellers, now serving 
overseas, and two brothers - Eugene M. Sellers, Glendale, Cal., and Harry N. 
Sellers, Flint, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Martha Springer, Abilene, Kansas.
  Funeral services at 2:30 o'clock this Thursday afternoon at the home of Rev. 
Galen R. Blough, pastor of the Somerset Church of the Brethren.  Interment in 
Union Cemetery, Meyersdale, under the direction of Walter S. Hoffman, Somerset 
mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, December 30, 1943