OBIT: John H. SIEGNER, 1945, native of Somerset County, PA

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JOHN H. SIEGNER

Tragic Death of John F. Siegner At Youngstown, O.
R.R. Yard Conductor Struck and Killed by Unscheduled Train

  John H. Siegner, 41, son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Siegner of Meyersdale R.D. 3, 
was killed when he got in the way of a train in the B & O R. R. yards in 
Youngstown, O., about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1.  Mr. Siegner was employed by 
the B & O as a yard conductor.  He had just come from the tower and was crossing 
the tracks with a message, when a U.S. Steel Company train came through and 
struck him, while he apparently did not observe that he was walking on the same 
track.
  Mr. Siegner was born on Feb. 2, 1904, near Meyersdale.  Besides his parents, 
he leaves his wife, the former Vila Christner, and nine brothers and sisters - 
Mrs. Joseph Mazda and Eugene and Eleanor Siegner, Cleveland, O.; Irene and Carl, 
at home; Lee, Aurora, O.; Mrs. Verna Phillippi, Philadelphia; Mrs. George 
Pfeiffer, Cumberland, Md., and Mrs. Karl Dietle, Salisbury.
  His body was received Tuesday afternoon at the Konhaus Funeral Home, where 
services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Rev. Kenneth Ashman, pastor of the Main 
Street Brethren Church, and Rev. Sherwood Keiser, pastor of the Methodist 
Church, officiated.  Interment in Union Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, December 6, 1945