OBIT: John Walter SHUNK, 1940, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN WALTER SHUNK

  John Walter Shunk died very suddenly in the early morning of May 23, 1940, at 
his home in Salisbury, Pa., at the age of 73 years, 10 months and 8 days.  His 
death was caused by a heart attack.  His health had been failing for a year or 
more, but he was able to do light work most of the time.  He was about town the 
day before he died, and no one even suspected that he was ill, or that his death 
was so near at hand.
  He was a son of the late Jacob and Margaret Null Shunk, who located in 
Salisbury some time during the "seventies," coming from Stonycreek Township.  
The deceased, like his father, worked many years in the mines of the Salisbury 
coal region, and at various other kinds of labor.  He was of an easy-going, 
kindly disposition, always ready to do anyone a good turn that needed it, with 
no thought of pay.
  Mr. Shunk is survived by his wife, Nancy, a daughter of the late Paul and 
Louvina Deal Werner of Greenville Township, and by these children: Edward and 
Mary, wife of John Baer, of Salisbury; Margaret, wife of Harvey Baker of 
Pocahontas; Elsie, wife of Solomon Baker of Hyasota, and Hubert, at home.
  The funeral service was held at the family home, on Charliss Street, last 
Saturday, at 1:15 p.m., and was conducted by Rev. A. M. Wright.
  Interment was in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Salisbury, under the direction of 
Mortician W. C. Price, of Meyersdale.

Meyersdale Republican, May 30, 1940