OBIT: Grant A. TRESSLER, 1945, native of Somerset County, PA

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GRANT A. TRESSLER

  Grant A. Tressler, 71, retired popular and well known hotel and restaurant 
operator, died at his home on Light Street, Thursday morning, Oct. 6th, after a 
long illness from heart ailment.
  He was born in Wellersburg, Dec. 25, 1872, a son of Joseph and Carrie 
(Pelster) Tressler.  He spent most of his boyhood in Southampton Township.
  He came to Meyersdale to engage in business in 1896, and was married on Aug. 
9, 1900, to Marguerite B. Boger.  Mr. and Mrs. Tressler conducted the Central 
Hotel, Meyersdale for five years, after which they moved to Wellersburg where 
they were in the hotel business for eleven years, and for the next five years in 
Irwin, Pa., after which they returned to Meyersdale and were engaged in the 
restaurant business here until obliged to retire on account of ill health, the 
first of this year.
  Mr. and Mrs. Tressler established a reputation for good catering that never 
has been exceded [sic] by any one engaged in that line of business in 
Meyersdale.  Their good food and their courteous treatment of their patrons made 
for them a host of loyal and admiring friends.
  Disposing of their restaurant to Mr. and Mrs. John Horning, last January, Mr. 
and Mrs. Tressler moved into the Karl Leith home on Light Street, where his 
health continued to decline, and where he peacefully passed away at the age of 
71 years, 10 months and 4 days.
  He is survived by his devoted wife and three sisters - Mary, Mrs. David Lewis 
of Wilmerding; Myrtle, Mrs. E. K. Berie of Dearborn, Mich., and Lutie, Mrs. 
George Holliday, of Meyersdale.  He was preceded in death by three brothers - 
Frank, George and Joseph Tressler.
  Funeral services were conducted at his late home, 216 Light Street, at 3 
o'clock last Sunday afternoon, by Rev. D. L. Shaffer, supply pastor of Zion 
Lutheran Church, followed by interment in Union Cemetery, under direction of 
mortician H. R. Konhaus.
  Mr. Tressler will long be remembered as a man in whom there was no guile, and 
who had the friendship of all who knew him.

Meyersdale Republican, October 11, 1945