OBIT: Emma May (SCHRAMM) WAGNER, 1945, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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EMMA MAY WAGNER

Shocking Death of Mrs. Earle Wagner
Native of Salisbury Found Dead in Her Home in Somerset

  Relatives and friends in Salisbury were shocked and grieved to learn of the 
death last Friday, of Mrs. Emma May Wagner, wife of Earle C. Wagner, at her home 
in Somerset.  Mrs. Wagner was found dead by her 9-year-old grandson, Dale 
Wagner, when he returned from the Union Street school at about 4:00 p.m. on 
January 5th.
  When the lad went upstairs to change his clothes he found the body of his 
grandmother suspended from a door frame.  The lad called Policeman Lester 
Wagner, who notified Coroner P. C. Dosch.  The coroner decided that death by 
suicide must have occurred at about 3:30 p.m.
  Mrs. Wagner had not been in good health for some time, but no reason is known 
for her taking her own life.  She was born in Salisbury on November 19, 1890, 
shortly after her parents, the late George and Ida May Schramm, moved here.  She 
and her husband, son of Blacksmith Charles Wagner, resided here after their 
marriage until about 20 years ago.  
  Two sons are in the service; Pvt. Robert Wagner, somewhere in Africa, and Pvt. 
Daniel Wagner at Camp Bowie, Texas.  Mrs. Daniel Wagner is with her husband in 
Texas, and their son, Dale, had been staying with his grandparents since his 
father entered the Army.
  Mrs. Wagner is survived by three sisters - Mrs. Jonas Lichty, Salisbury; Mrs. 
R. R. Staub, Somerset, and Mrs. Wilbur Foster, Akron, Ohio; and two brothers - 
George of Somerset and Paul of Wilkinsburg.
  Funeral services were conducted at her home, 431 North Centre Avenue in 
Somerset at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 9th, with Rev. I. Hess Wagner, D.D., 
officiating.  Interment in the Salisbury I.O.O.F. Cemetery in charge of 
Mortician Charles R. Hauger of Somerset.

Meyersdale Republican, January 11, 1945