OBIT: Charles Leroy SHUMAKER, 1944, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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CHARLES L. SHUMAKER

  Charles Leroy Shumaker, aged 59 years, 3 months and 27 days, died at his home 
on Keystone Street, at 3 o'clock Wednesday, Aug. 2nd.
  He lived in Meyersdale for 16 years and conducted a Singer sewing-machine 
sales and repair agency until failing eye-sight obliged him to retire several 
years ago.
  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. June Landis Shumaker, and the following 
children: Mrs. George Blankenbiller, Mrs. L. H. Clinton, and Mrs. Ray Brown, 
Reading, Pa.; H. W. and Daniel Shumaker, Akron, Ohio, and Cadet Merl Shumaker, 
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
  He is also survived by the following brothers and sisters: Harry Shumaker, 
Elkins, W.Va.; Edward, Flint, Mich.; Annie, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Stella Walbert, 
Frostburg, Md., and a half-brother, Arthur Knepp of Meyersdale.
  Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Norman Seese in the Boynton Church 
of God.  Burial in Meyersdale Union Cemetery, directed by R. Reich & Son, 
Meyersdale morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, August 3, 1944