OBIT: William Wadsworth WAGNER, 1948, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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WILLIAM W. WAGNER

  William Wadsworth Wagner, 47, only son of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. I. Hess Wagner, 
Somerset, died suddenly in the Somerset Community Hospital.  He had been taken 
to the hospital that morning, after suffering from a heart ailment for the past 
two weeks.  He was the proprietor of the Wagner Radio shop in the First National 
Bank Building.
  Mr. Wagner was born November 24, 1901, in Williamsport, and came with his 
parents to Somerset 40 years ago.  He was a radio engineer.  He was one of the 
pioneers in building recording chimes and he constructed the arrangement of 
chimes in "Old Trinity," his father's church, the first of the kind in the 
county.
  Mr. Wagner was a descendent of the family of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on his 
mother's side and was named for the poet.  He was a veteran of World War II.
  He is survived by his parents and his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Harris Wagner.
  Funeral services were held privately Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the 
Hoffman Funeral Home.  Burial in the Somerset County Memorial Park.

Meyersdale Republican, December 30, 1948