OBIT: Merle R. WOOD, 1916, Lisburn, York County, PA

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WOOD

Merle R. Wood, one of the best known young men of Lisburn and neighborhood, died 
at his home, Oct. 20, of typhoid fever.  He was running a threshing machine and 
was working every day among the farmers when he was taken sick during the latter 
part of September.

He was 31 years, 10 months and 13 days old.  He was married to Miss Bertha 
Sutton and she with one son, aged 3 years, survives.  The son has the typhoid 
also but is convalescing.  He was a son of Monroe Wood of near Lisburn and is 
survived by a number of brothers and sisters and both his parents.

He was a young man of good moral character and had a host of friends.  Funeral 
service were held Monday morning at Andersontown and it was one of the largest 
funerals held there in recent years.

Services were conducted by Rev. F. W. McGuire of Lisburn and Rev. C. H. Heiges 
of Enhaut.

Dillsburg Weekly Bulletin, Friday, October 27, 1916