OBIT: Howard James SHOCKEY, 1932, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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HOWARD JAMES SHOCKEY

  Howard James Shockey, infant son of James H. and Margaret (Miller) Shockey, 
died Thursday, December 8th, in Pittsburgh where he was taken for orthopedic 
surgical treatment and while there contracted pneumonia to which he succumbed.  
He was born October 6, 1932, and at the time of his death was but 2 months and 2 
days old.
  Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the home of 
the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Shockey, Rev. George L. Detweiler 
and Rev. Howard K. Hilner, pastors of the Church of the Brethren and Zion 
Lutheran Church, respectively, having charge of the services.  Interment was 
made in Union Cemetery by Undertaker W. C. Price.
  Baby Howard had been receiving treatment in the Orthopedic Hospital in 
Pittsburgh by Dr. Silver, for the correction of a deformity of the feet.  After 
the necessary surgical operation, the child was taken from the hospital to the 
home of a relative of the Shockey family in Pittsburgh, where Dr. Silver kept 
the infant under observation during the healing process, the mother remaining 
with her child.
  On Wednesday of last week the child seemed to be suffering from a cold.  A 
nearby physician was called and found the little one to be suffering from 
bronchitis which soon developed into pneumonia.
  The father and grandfather of the little sufferer were deer hunting at the 
Meyersdale Hunting Club's lodge on Laurel Hill Mountain when Sam Cramer brought 
the news of the baby's serious condition, on Wednesday night.  They started 
immediately for Pittsburgh, but the little one had passed away before they 
arrived there.
  From the time of his birth Howard Junior had been a fine, strong baby, with 
the exception of drawn ligaments in the feet which could have been corrected 
with several more treatments.
  The parents and a sister of the little boy, Barbara Jane Shockey, survive.

Meyersdale Republican, December 15, 1932