OBIT: William J. WALIZER, 1945, native of Somerset County, PA

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WILLIAM J. WALIZER

Running Against Moving Car Fatal To School Boy

  Struck by a car at 4:10 on Tuesday afternoon, April 17, at the intersection of 
Dale and Grant Street, William J. Walizer, aged 8, died a half hour later in the 
Hazel McGilvery Hospital.
  The accident occurred near the shirt factory, where William and his sister, 
Grace, were accustomed to going daily after school to wait for their aunts, 
Misses Naomi and Margaret Knepp, who are employed there.  The lad was standing 
on the sidewalk, when he was attracted to a parked cattle truck, and after 
touching the cattle, made a dash to return to the sidewalk, heedless of an 
oncoming car, whose driver did not see him, and collided with the moving 
vehicle, according to report.
  Melvin Hetz, aged 49, employed on the Wilmoth farm, Meyersdale R.D. 3, driver 
of the car, immediately stopped to render assistance, and rushed the boy to the 
hospital, where he succumbed about twenty minutes later, from a fractured skull, 
internal injuries and shock.
  The accident was investigated by Deputy Coroner C. S. Beck of Rockwood and 
Borough Policeman M. C. O'Neal.
  Young Walizer was a pupil in the third grade of the local public school.  He 
had been living with his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Knepp, 
of North St., since the death of his mother, Mary (Knepp) Walizer, in 1938.  Mr. 
Knepp is janitor of the local Lutheran Church.
  Surviving, in addition to his grandparents and sister, Grace, who also lives 
with them, are his father, Franklin J. Walizer, of Lock Haven; a half-sister, 
Martha, of Loysville; a half-brother, Ralph, of the U.S. Army, stationed in 
Florida; and his aunts, Naomi and Margaret Knepp.
  Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock, Friday afternoon in the 
Lutheran Church, by Rev. George Bowersox, Lutheran pastor at Salisbury, assisted 
by Rev. Nelson C. Brown of the Reformed church, in the absence of the lad's 
pastor, Rev. R. M. Dunkleberger, D.D.  Interment will be made in the Knepp 
family plot in White Oak Cemetery, under the direction of H. R. Konhaus, local 
mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, April 19, 1945