OBIT: Lloyd C. SHUMAC, 1948, native of Somerset County, PA

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LLOYD C. SHUMAC

  Lloyd C. Shumac, son of Wilson and Annie Hochstetler Shumac, died at Mt. Alto 
Veterans Administration Hospital in Washington, D.C., September 8, 1948.  He was 
born in Summit Mills, November 25, 1894, and died at the age of 53 years.  He 
was a member of the Brethren Church since 1907.  He was a veteran of World War 
I, during which he served overseas with the 15th Engineers.
  Mr. Shumac joined the Treasury Department in 1919, and worked in the 
Register's office until his illness.  In 1922, he was appointed chief of the 
division of destruction; in 1924 he was made head of the Cancelled Securities 
Division and in 1925 became assistant to the Register.  He was a 32nd degree 
Mason and a member of the American Legion, Columbia Post, of Washington, D.C.
  He is survived by his wife, Margaret, and one step-daughter, Mrs. James 
Whitaker, and by his father, W. J. Shumac, and one sister, Mrs. Robert Keim of 
Summit Mills.
  Funeral services were held Sunday, September 12, in the Brethren Church at 
Summit Mills, with the Rev. Gerald Polman officiating.  Burial was made in the 
church cemetery under the direction of H. R. Konhaus, mortician.
  Friends from a distance who attended the funeral were James Whitaker of Green 
Acres, Md.; Dr. Edward Dolan, Register of the Treasury; Ross Heffelfinger, 
Deputy Commissioner of Public Debt; Guy Sutton, chief division registers office, 
Washington, D.C. 

Meyersdale Republican, September 16, 1948