OBIT: Ada Irene (LIVENGOOD) TALLINGER, 1943, native of Somerset County, PA

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ADA TALLINGER

  Mrs. Ada Irene Livengood Tallinger, wife of Charles A. Tallinger, died at her 
home, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Dec. 22, 1943, at the age of 48 years, 10 months 
and 13 days.  She was born and reared in Salisbury, but lived most of her life 
in Cleveland and Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
  Her health has been failing during the last two years, but she was confined to 
her bed only about two months.
  Being a person of unusual energy, and by nature a business woman, a 
considerable portion of her life was devoted to business occupations.  During 
her last illness she did not seem to realize that anything serious was ailing 
her until shortly before she became bedfast.
  Then, after a thorough examination made by an eminent physician, an internal 
cancerous condition was found which was considered incurable.  The seriousness 
of her condition was not disclosed to her, which saved her a big lot of mental 
worry, and enabled her to feel quite cheerful and hopeful of recovery.
  The day before she died she went into a state of coma from which she had no 
wakening.
  Mrs. Tallinger was the fourth of ten children born to Peter L. and the late 
Minnie Viola Green, a well-known school mistress, before her marriage to P. L. 
Livengood, when both of them were residents of Nebraska.  Mrs. Tallinger was 
preceded in death by two elder sisters, Alma Grace, wife of the late Joseph B. 
Algire of Johnstown, and Florence, wife of J. N. Wagner of Akron, Ohio, also by 
her mother, who died Oct. 15, 1927, and her eldest brother, Robert, who died in 
infancy in 1893.
  Before she had quite reached the age of 18 years, Mrs. Tallinger had acquired 
a good business education at a Johnstown business college, and was employed as a 
bookkeeper and typist by two different business firms in Johnstown.  While there 
she was attracted to Cleveland, Ohio, by an advertisement for help, and in 
competition with other applicants, landed a very desirable position with the 
Ohio Guarantee Tire and Rubber Company.
  In 1921 she became the wife of Mr. Tallinger.  Surviving are the bereaved 
husband and three children, namely, Viola, who had a very desirable position 
with the New York Central Railroad Company; Charles A., Jr., who is a soldier in 
the Army and is now receiving special officer training at Grinnell College, 
Iowa, and Shirley Ann, who still has a year in high school.  She is also 
survived by her father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Livengood, Salisbury; 
one sister, Mrs. R. V. Callaghan, Cleveland, O., and five brothers - William S. 
Livengood, Jr., Somerset; Theodore L., Jennerstown; Peter L., New Jersey; John 
A., Harrisburg, and Joseph F., Meyersdale.
  Funeral services were held at the Edic Funeral Home, last Monday at 1:30 p.m., 
and were largely attended.  A short funeral service was also held in the chapel 
at Crown Hill Cemetery, where interment was made.
  Among those in attendance at the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. James Kelso, 
brother-in-law and sister of Mr. Tallinger; Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Callaghan, 
Cleveland; the five surviving brothers of Mrs. Tallinger, and J. N. Wagner and 
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Glenn Wagner, Akron, Ohio.
  Mrs. Tallinger had a wide acquaintance, and her friends were legion.  During 
the last five or six years she was prominently connected with the Sales 
Department of a well-known Cleveland firm, which took her to many cities and 
towns, some of them in different states.  Above all, she was a devoted wife and 
mother, and well versed in everything that enters into good housekeeping.
  Her father and step-mother were not at the funeral for the reason that her 
father was not in a fit physical condition to be away from his own home.

Meyersdale Republican, December 30, 1943