OBIT: Blanche Delena (LAYMAN) SWAUGER, 1945, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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BLANCHE DELENA LAYMAN SWAUGER

  Mrs. Blanche Delena Layman Swauger, wife of Leland Swauger, died at her home 
early Sunday morning, Sept. 2, after an illness of more than a year.  She had 
been a patient in the Miners' Hospital, Frostburg for several weeks prior to her 
death.
  Mrs. Swauger, daughter of the late Richard and Mrs. Anna H. (Miller) Layman, 
Frostburg, was born Oct. 21, 1905, at Avilton.
  She is survived by her husband and the following named children: Robert 
Swauger, F. 2/c, Bainbridge, Md.; Walter Leland, Jr., James, Charles, Thomas and 
Marjorie Juanita; her mother, Mrs. Anna H. Layman; one sister, Mrs. William 
Miller and a brother, Lee Layman, Grantsville.
  She was married to Mr. Swauger, Aug. 20, 1926, and resided in New Germany 
until February last when they moved to Grantsville, Md.
  Mrs. Swauger was a member of the New Germany Methodist Church.  Funeral 
services were held in the Grantsville Methodist Church, Tuesday afternoon, and 
were largely attended.  Rev. R. G. Henson, assisted by Rev. Ira S. Monn of the 
Salisbury Reformed Church, officiated.  Rev. Sylvestus Henson sang "The 
Unclouded Day", and "God Understands," accompanied by Mrs. S. Henson.  The 
pallbearers were Sylvan, Dallas, and Blaine Durst, Oberlin Stevens, Herbert and 
William Layman.  Interment in the Grantsville Cemetery.
  Relatives who attended the funeral were Mrs. Harriet Alice Swauger, Mr. and 
Mrs. Walter Alexander, La Vale; Mrs. Ada Brenneman, Cumberland; Mrs. Lottie 
Shaw, Greensburg, Pa., Stanley Swauger, Baltimore; Mr. and Mrs. Beryl Watkins, 
Akron, O., Mr. and Mrs. Geo. G. Durst, La Vale; Mrs. Anna Wilson and Anna May 
Layman, Frostburg.

Meyersdale Republican, September 6, 1945