OBIT: Benton Jack WALBURN, 1944, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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BENTON JACK WALBURN
Victim of Infantile Paralysis

  Benton Jack Walburn, 27, died of infantile paralysis, Aug. 1, in a Syracuse, 
N.Y., hospital.  He was a son of Mrs. Myrtle Walburn Messersmith and lived at 
Jennings, Md., before moving to Marathon, N.Y.  He is survived by his wife and 
young daughter and son, his mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. David 
Messersmith, of Marathon, N.Y., one brother and a half-brother and sister.   
Mrs. Ed Buckle and Mrs. Herbert Buckle, of Bittinger, Md., aunts of Mr. Walburn, 
went to Marathon, N.Y., to his funeral and to comfort the bereaved family.

Meyersdale Republican, August 10, 1944