OBIT: Ozias WEIMER, 1941, Greenville Township, Somerset County, PA

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OZIAS WEIMER

  Ozias Weimer, one of Somerset County's oldest citizens, died Monday, July 
14th, at 6 o'clock a.m., at the family home in Greenville Township, where he was 
born October 20th, 1847, and was aged at the time of his death 93 years, 8 
months and 24 days.
  August 15, 1872, Ozias Weimer was united in the bonds of holy matrimony with 
Elizabeth Rose Breig, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Breig, then 
residents of Salisbury, but later having removed to Meyers Mills, now 
Meyersdale, both of whom passed away many years ago.
  To this union were born eight sons and six daughters, of whom the following 
survive: Edward Weimer, Avilton, Md.; George Weimer, Frostburg, Md.; James 
Weimer, Mt. Savage, Md.; Alpheus Weimer and Mrs. Eugene Althoff, Gettysburg; 
Mrs. Leo Althoff, York; John and Lawrence Weimer, at home; Mrs. Alvin Garlitz, 
Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Thomas McKenzie, Avilton, Md., and Sister Mary Veronica, 
Philadelphia, Mrs. Joseph Merchbaher, Birmingham, Alabama, Samuel and Bernard 
Weimer preceded their parents in death.
  Also surviving are 66 grandchildren, 81 great-grandchildren and two great-
great-grandchildren.
  Funeral services were conducted in St. Michael's Catholic Church, West 
Salisbury, this (Thursday) morning at 10:30 o'clock, the Rev. Father Joseph 
Tomko, assisted by the Rev. Father Howard T. Miller, officiating.  Interment in 
St. Michael's Cemetery, West Salisbury, under the direction of R. Reich & Son, 
local morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, July 17, 1941