OBIT: Jasper N. TRESSLER, 1944, native of Somerset County, PA

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JASPER N. TRESSLER
  
  Jasper N. Tressler, son of the late Frank and Ruth (Daniels) Tressler, died at 
his work in Masontown, Pa. about 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 2nd, of 
apoplexy.  Mr. Tressler was born in Addison Township on August 3, 1880 and was 
aged 64 years, 2 months and 29 days when he died.
  He is survived by three daughters, Marie, Pittsburgh; Maisie, wife of Lawrence 
Fraley, Morgantown, W.Va.; and Gladys, near Boston, Mass.; three sons, Clarence, 
in the U.S. Army overseas, Clyde, Baltimore, Md.; and Lt. Duane Tressler, a 
pilot in the Atlantic Ferry Service of the U.S. Air Corps.  Also surviving are 
four brothers and two sisters: Renaldo, Monessen; John, Connellsville; Ezra, 
Harnedsville; and Ellet, Greenville Township; and Lucy, wife of John Walker, 
Boswell; and Catherine, wife of Frank J. Swartzwelder, Salisbury.  He was 
preceded in death by a son in childhood, two brothers, Jess and Walter, and one 
sister, Sarah.
  Mr. Tressler was a former resident of Salisbury and he and his family were 
well-known in this vicinity.  He was a member of the Methodist Church in 
Masontown.  He had been in failing health for the last few years, and had been 
doing light work for the firm by which he was employed.
  Funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m., on Sunday, November 5th, in the 
Charles E. Jenkins Funeral Home in Morgantown, W.Va., with Rev. W. T. Poling 
officiating, and again at 4:15 p.m. in St. John's Lutheran Church, Salisbury, 
with Rev. George E. Bowersox, Jr., officiating.  Interment in the I.O.O.F. 
Cemetery in Salisbury, with Mortician Charles E. Jenkins of Morgantown in 
charge.

Meyersdale Republican, November 9, 1944