OBIT: Clyde McCLINTOCK, 1946, native of Somerset County, PA

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CLYDE McCLINTOCK

Clyde McClintock Killed at Wheel of Wrecked Car
Crashed Against Tree While Driving from Rockwood to Garrett Saturday Night

  Clyde McClintock, 44, of Latrobe, formerly of Somerset, was killed sometime 
Saturday night, January 26, when his car crashed into a tree along Route 653, 
one mile west of Garrett.
  The wreckage was first discovered about 12:30 Sunday morning, when a Mr. 
Hewitt of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, enroute to Meyersdale, with his family, saw the 
car and the body of McClintock pinned in the wreckage.  He notified a garage in 
Garrett, and in turn Dr. C. T. Saylor of Rockwood, deputy coroner, was called to 
the scene of the accident and found the man dead due to a skull fracture.
  McClintock had spent several hours Saturday night in Rockwood with his 
daughter, Madeline, wife of Ray Weimer, and had left there between 11:30 and 
midnight.
  State policeman, Pvt. Paul Dorsey, of the Somerset sub-station, who 
investigated said it was his belief that McClintock may have fallen asleep for a 
moment, during which time his car left the road, crashed into a tree and was 
wrecked with fatal effect to the driver.
  Mr. McClintock was married to the former Myrtle Romesburg of Berlin R.D. 1, 
and was the father of four children - Creed, with the Army in Georgia; Leona and 
Clyde Jr., at home, and Mrs. Ray Weimer of Rockwood.
  He formerly operated an auto repair shop and an automobile agency in Somerset.  
During the last two years he was employed by the Love Motor Sales Company of 
Latrobe.
  Clyde McClintock was the son of Mrs. Ida McClintock of St. Paul, Elk Lick 
Twp., and it is reported he was enroute to his mother's home when he met death.
  Funeral services were held at the decedent's home at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, 
after arrival of his son, Pfc. Creed McClintock from Fort McPherson, Ga.  Rev. 
George Ely, pastor of St. Paul's (Wilhelm) Reformed Church, officiated.  After 
the rites at the home, his body was taken to the home of his mother at St. Paul 
for interment in the St. Paul cemetery, Mills & Mickey, Rockwood morticians had 
charge of the burial arrangements.
  Surviving in addition to his mother, widow and four children, are one brother, 
Carl, of Berlin R.D. 1, and a sister, Mrs. Frederick Speicher of Akron, Ohio.

Meyersdale Republican, January 31, 1946