OBIT: Rudolph KUFFER, 1944, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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RUDOLPH KUFFER

  Rudolph Kuffer died at his home in Somerset, October 23, 1944.  He was born in 
Germany on November 11, 1853, and was 90 years, 11 months, and 12 days old at 
the time of his death.
  The son of Charles and Fredericka Kuffer, he was baptized in Germany and 
confirmed in the Lutheran Church in Germany on Easter Sunday in 1865.  The next 
year, 1866, he came to America on a sailing vessel.  In Meyersdale, where he 
lived for many years, he joined Amity Church where he served as Elder.  Here 
also he was married to Elizabeth Poschman, the daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth 
Poschman, on February 14, 1880.  
  Two of their children, John and Ruth, died in infancy.  Another daughter, 
Eliza Lenore, wife of Martin A. Miller, died in 1910.  Besides his wife, three 
daughters survive: Mary, wife of J. William Kline; Olive, wife of Henry G. 
Gress, Esq.; Anna Martha, at home.
  There are four grandchildren: Lt. George E. Kline with the Army in France; 
Ensign Robert L. Kline with the Navy in the Pacific; Albert Rudolph Kline of 
Friedens; Miss Sarah Elizabeth Gress, a student at Juniata College.  There is 
also one great-grandchild, Douglas Coleman Kline, a son of George E. Kline.
  Rev. Dr. George L. Roth, pastor of St. Paul's Reformed Church, Somerset of 
which Mr. Kuffer was a member, conducted the service on October 26.  He was 
assisted by Rev. Frank D. Witmer of Berlin.
  Mr. Kuffer was a regular church attendant and loyal churchman and loved the 
country to which he came as a lad after a long journey on a sailing vessel.

Meyersdale Republican, December 14, 1944