OBIT: Howard R. WILL, 1986, native of Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Nancy Lorz Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ HOWARD R. WILL Howard R. Will, 89, Aurora, Ohio, formerly of Cumberland, Md., died April 18, 1986, at the Anna Maria Nursing Home, Aurora, Ohio. He was employed by the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, Cumberland, Md. and in Tyler, Tex., for 41 years, retiring in 1968 as a cost accountant. Born in Meyersdale, May 6, 1896, he was the son of the late Horace Will and Sadie (Moore) Will. He was a Navy veteran of World War I, having served as a quartermaster aboard the battleship Pennsylvania. In World War II he was the captain of a tanker. He began his employment with Kelly-Springfield in 1927 in Cumberland and was transferred to Tyler in 1963. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the American Legion in Ohio. He moved to Aurora in 1981, two years after the death of his wife, Margaret. Surviving are one son Robert A. Will, Chagrin Falls, Ohio; two grandsons, and three sisters, Mrs. Rebekah Keim, Holmes Beach, Fla.; Mrs. Mary Daura, Houston, Tex., and Mrs. Louise Campbell, Naples Fla. Services were conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, Tyler, Tex. Interment, Tyler Memorial Cemetery. The Reed-Nichols Funeral Home, Chagrin Falls, was in charge of arrangements. The Republic, May 1, 1986 [W1268]