Birth:
Dec. 16, 1872
New Manchester
Hancock County
West Virginia, USA
Death:
Feb. 28, 1953
Steubenville
Jefferson County
Ohio, USA
OBITUARY:
East Liverpool Review, East Liverpool, Columbiana Co., OH. Monday, 02 Mar 1953, pg. 5.
Frank A. Wern
Frank A. Wern of Pughtown died Saturday at 8:45 p.m. in the Ohio Valley Hospital at Steubenville following a four – year illness. He was 80. Wern was born Dec. 16, 1872, in Pughtown, a son of Thomas and Letica Rowland Wern. He was employed in the tin mill department of the Weirton Steel Co. for 33 years. retiring about four years ago because of failing health. Wern was a member of the United American Mechanics and the Presbyterian Church of New Cumberland and the Twenty – Five Year Club of the Weirton Steel Co. His wife, Mrs. Nora Dean Allison Wern, died in 1949. He leaves six sons, Charles E. Wern of Warren, Harmon H. Wern of Eldersville, Pa., Homer A. Wern of Baltimore, Thomas J. Wern of East Liverpool, Paul A. Wern of Pughtown and T. Sgt. William Wern at Camp Hill, Pa.; a sister, Mrs. Alice Marshall of East Liverpool; a brother Thomas Wern of New Cumberland; 16 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Rites will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Fields Funeral Home at New Cumberland by the Rev. W. H. Flurkey, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in the Union Cemetery at Pughtown. Friends may call at the funeral home.