OBIT: William H. THORP, 1944, Berlin, Somerset County, PA

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WILLIAM H. THORP

  William H. Thorp, 73, died Tuesday evening at his home in Berlin, after an 
illness of ten weeks.  He was a son of Wilson and Mary (Clites) Thorp and had 
been a resident of Berlin for 50 years.  Surviving are his wife, Elanora 
(Sarver) Thorp, six children - Ellwood, Akron, O.; Homer, Dallastown, Pa.; 
Richard, Dayton, O.; Pearl, wife of Ira Weigel, Rockwood; Elsie, Pittsburgh, and 
Lyda, wife of Frank Barr, Windber.  Also surviving are nine grandchildren, one 
great grandchild, two half-sisters, Mrs. Pane Kalp, Melcroft, and Mrs. M. D. 
McMann, Tifflin, O., and a half-brother, James Clayton, Akron, O.
  Mr. Thorp was a member of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, the Knights of 
Pythias, and the Berlin Volunteer Fire Company.
  Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon.  
Interment will be in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery under the direction of Johnson & Son.

Meyersdale Republican, September 21, 1944