OBIT: Bernard Francis Wagner, 1903, Interment at Hanover, York County, PA

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The funeral of Bernard Francis Wagner, who was killed Friday night at Altoona, 
took place this morning at 9 o’clock from the home of his parents, on Walnut 
Street.  A Requiem High Mass was celebrated at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church by 
the pastor, Rev. Father J. C. Foin.  Interment was made at St. Joseph’s Catholic 
Cemetery.  The funeral was largely attended by relatives and friends of the 
deceased.  The floral tributes were numerous and handsome, testifying to the 
high esteem in which the young man was held.

St. Joseph’s Beneficiary Society, of which deceased was a member, attended in a 
body.

The pall-bearers were Stanley Scheivert, Martin Rang, Harvey Ohm, Ambrose Klunk, 
Claude Forney and Herbert Hershey.

Those attending the funeral from out of town were:  John Conoburgh and wife and 
Thomas Dissel, of Wilkes-barre, Rev. Father Melchior, Henry ----, John Wagner, 
Mrs. Charles Landis, Mrs. Curvin Scheivert, Mrs. ----- Keene, Misses Emma Boll 
and Virginia Heist, of York; John Weaver and son, David Fink and wife of New 
Oxford; Conrad Schmidt of Bonneauville and Mrs. Bair and son of Glenville.

Evening Herald, Hanover, PA, August 4, 1903