Jacob Neikirk Stouffer, 37 South Prospect Street, a retired passenger conductor of the Pennsylvania Railroad, died at the Washington County Hospital Thursday at 2:50 p.m. He had been ill for three weeks and hospitalized for only one day. He was 82 years old.
Born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Simon P. and Susan F. (Niceary) Stouffer. He came to Hagerstown in 1901 to secure employment with the Cumberland Valley Railroad, which later became the Pennsylvania Railroad. Best known as the conductor on the daily run between Hagerstown and Harrisburg, he retired in 1947.
He was a member of Friendship Lodge No. ?, A.F. and A.M.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Clara (Bolinger) Stouffer; sisters, Mrs. Charles Reasier? and Mrs. Harold Babb, both of Salem, Ohio, and Mrs. Nellie Diehl, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
The body was removed to the Suter-Rouzer Funeral Home, where services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Dr. J. Turnbull Spicknall. Interment will be made in Mountain View Cemetery, Sharpsburg. The officers of Friendship Lodge will conduct Masonic services at both the funeral home and the grave. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 until 9 o'clock. Please omit flowers.
Source: Morning Herald (Hagerstown, MD) May 4, 1957
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Born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Simon P. and Susan F. (Niceary) Stouffer. He came to Hagerstown in 1901 to secure employment with the Cumberland Valley Railroad, which later became the Pennsylvania Railroad. Best known as the conductor on the daily run between Hagerstown and Harrisburg, he retired in 1947.
He was a member of Friendship Lodge No. ?, A.F. and A.M.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Clara (Bolinger) Stouffer; sisters, Mrs. Charles Reasier? and Mrs. Harold Babb, both of Salem, Ohio, and Mrs. Nellie Diehl, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
The body was removed to the Suter-Rouzer Funeral Home, where services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Dr. J. Turnbull Spicknall. Interment will be made in Mountain View Cemetery, Sharpsburg. The officers of Friendship Lodge will conduct Masonic services at both the funeral home and the grave. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 until 9 o'clock. Please omit flowers.
Source: Morning Herald (Hagerstown, MD) May 4, 1957
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Jacob Neikirk Stouffer, 37 South Prospect Street, a retired passenger conductor of the Pennsylvania Railroad, died at the Washington County Hospital Thursday at 2:50 p.m. He had been ill for three weeks and hospitalized for only one day. He was 82 years old.
Born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Simon P. and Susan F. (Niceary) Stouffer. He came to Hagerstown in 1901 to secure employment with the Cumberland Valley Railroad, which later became the Pennsylvania Railroad. Best known as the conductor on the daily run between Hagerstown and Harrisburg, he retired in 1947.
He was a member of Friendship Lodge No. ?, A.F. and A.M.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Clara (Bolinger) Stouffer; sisters, Mrs. Charles Reasier? and Mrs. Harold Babb, both of Salem, Ohio, and Mrs. Nellie Diehl, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
The body was removed to the Suter-Rouzer Funeral Home, where services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Dr. J. Turnbull Spicknall. Interment will be made in Mountain View Cemetery, Sharpsburg. The officers of Friendship Lodge will conduct Masonic services at both the funeral home and the grave. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 until 9 o'clock. Please omit flowers.
Source: Morning Herald (Hagerstown, MD) May 4, 1957
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Born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Simon P. and Susan F. (Niceary) Stouffer. He came to Hagerstown in 1901 to secure employment with the Cumberland Valley Railroad, which later became the Pennsylvania Railroad. Best known as the conductor on the daily run between Hagerstown and Harrisburg, he retired in 1947.
He was a member of Friendship Lodge No. ?, A.F. and A.M.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Clara (Bolinger) Stouffer; sisters, Mrs. Charles Reasier? and Mrs. Harold Babb, both of Salem, Ohio, and Mrs. Nellie Diehl, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
The body was removed to the Suter-Rouzer Funeral Home, where services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Dr. J. Turnbull Spicknall. Interment will be made in Mountain View Cemetery, Sharpsburg. The officers of Friendship Lodge will conduct Masonic services at both the funeral home and the grave. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 7 until 9 o'clock. Please omit flowers.
Source: Morning Herald (Hagerstown, MD) May 4, 1957
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