OBIT: Simon NICHOLSON, 1944, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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SIMON NICHOLSON

  Simon Nicholson, 91, of Berlin, a retired employee of the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad, died Monday morning, Jan. 31, at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. 
Harold Walker, in Somerset. He had been ill only since Sunday.
  Mr. Nicholson, who had a service record of 50 years with the railroad company, 
had made his home for the last 18 months in Somerset.  His wife, Mrs. Lucretia 
(Putman) Nicholson, died seven years ago.
  Surviving are five children - William, Benscreek; Herbert, Johnstown; Frank, 
Albany, N.Y.; Ellwood, Connellsville, and Clarence, Friedens.  Two daughters and 
four sons are dead.
  Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the 
Johnson & Son Funeral Home in Berlin, where friends are being received.  
Interment will be in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, February 3, 1944