OBIT: Grover Otto UMBLE, 1945, Ursina, Somerset County, PA

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GROVER OTTO UMBLE

Ursina Father of Eight Killed by Hit-Run Driver

  Grover Otto Umble, 59, of Ursina, father of eight children, was injured 
fatally by a hit-run driver on Route 53 at 8:30 o'clock Saturday evening.  He 
died of a fracture of the skull and internal injuries five hours later at Price 
Hospital, Confluence.
  State police from the Jennerstown substation said they learned that Mr. Umble 
was walking along the highway from Confluence to his home in Ursina when he was 
struck and hurt fatally.  He was removed to the hospital by a passing motorist.
  Mr. Umble was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad.  He was born in the State 
of Maryland on Nov. 16, 1885.  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Umble, and 
eight children: Leroy, overseas with the Army; Helen, Claudine, Charles, Paul, 
Mary Kathryn, Janet and Ronald, at home.
  Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the 
Humbert Funeral Home.  Interment in the Old Bethel Cemetery near Kingwood.

Meyersdale Republican, April 5, 1945