OBIT: Harry THOMPSON, 1940, native of Somerset County, PA

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HARRY THOMPSON

  Word was received in Ursina last week of the death of Harry Thompson, who was 
born and reared here, his parents being highly respected citizens of this 
community.  As a boy he was bell hop in the Markleton Sanitorium during that 
institution's flourishing days.  A patient in the Sanitorium from McKeesport and 
his wife took a liking to young Thompson and became his sponsors in starting him 
on his career as a druggist and at their deaths he became their heir.  He became 
very successful in the business world.  Mr. Thompson is survived by his wife and 
one daughter, Mrs. Catherine Stansbury of Pittsburgh who is well known in 
Ursina, having spent the early years of her life with her grandparents here.  
Her husband is physical director in the Irene Kauffman Settlement in Pittsburgh.
  Mr. Thompson had a lot of friends in the McKeesport and Pittsburgh districts.  
He had been in poor health for a number of years.  Robert Levy and several other 
boyhood friends attended the funeral, which was held in McKeesport Friday 
afternoon.

Meyersdale Republican, May 2, 1940