OBIT: Hobert G. DICK, 1946, Bakers Summit, Bedford County, PA

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Man Expires At Burial of His Brother

  While attending burial services for his brother, Edward S. Dick, at 
Greenlawn cemetery in Roaring Spring, Hobert G. Dick of Bakers Summit 
collapsed in his automobile and was pronounced dead at the Nason hospital 
yesterday afternoon at 3.45 o'clock.
  Mr. Dick had been in failing health for several years. He remained in the 
automobile during the burial service and when his son returned to the car he 
noticed his father slumped in the seat. He took him to the hospital where he 
was pronounced dead from a heart attack.
  Born in Centre county Jan. 8, 1898, Mr. Dick was the son of Samuel and 
Harriet (Garber) Dick. He was united in marriage with Dorothy Stonerook 
Sept. 11, 1919, in Hollidaysburg.
  He is survived by his wife, one son, Eugene of Roaring Spring; five 
daughters, Shirley, Audrey, Odene and Joan, all at home, and Nadine of 
Everett; one granddaughter, his mother and two brothers, Joseph and Walter 
of Roaring Spring; these sisters:  Mrs. Hazel Lingenfelter of Claysburg, 
Mrs. Mary Gates of Eldorado, Mrs. Golda Feather, Mrs. Irene Myers, Mrs. 
Edith Isenberg and Miss Susan Dick, all of Roaring Spring; one half-sister, 
Mrs. Roxie Lykens of Port Matilda, and two half brothers, Arthur of Roaring 
Spring and Claude of Roaring Spring, R.D.
  Mr. Dick was a member of the Holsinger Church of the Brethren. He was a 
veteran of World War I, and was a member of the Murray-Appleman Legion post 
147, Roaring Spring. He was employed by the Pennsylvania railroad as a 
boilermaker for 24 years.
  Friends will be received at the home at Bakers Summit after 7 o'clock this 
evening.

DICK - Funeral services for Hobert G. Dick of Bakers Summit, will be 
conducted Thursday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock in the Roaring Spring Church of 
the Brethren in charge of Rev. Joseph E. Whitacre and Rev. H.Q. Rhodes. 
Interment in Greenlawn cemetery. Friends will be received at the home after 
7 o'clock this evening.

Blair County Genealogical Society, Old Index Card Collection, DICK surname, 
hand-dated 12-16-46