Source of information:
Death Certificate #115447, Venango County, Pennsylvania
Name on Death Certificate: Ruby Wentling (Ruben Wentling)
Parents:
Washington Wentling, born Knox, PA
Elizabeth Dittman
Spouse: Ollie / Olive Frye
Occupation: Fieldman for Penna. Fuel Company, worked for company for 35 years.
Residence at time of death: Beaver Township, RD2 Knox, PA.
Age at death: 57 years, 6 months, 17 days
Location of death: Oil City, Venango County, Oil City Hospital.
Cause of death: gun shot on left side going down through ....[sorry can not read writing]; "homicide".
"bullet wounds through the head and abdomen caused the boy's death".
Informant at time of death: Mrs. Merle Over, of Knox, Pennsylvania [daughter].
Burial: 30 Dec 1940, St Pauls Union Cemetery, Clarion County, Pennyslvania.
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DEATHS
Reuben L. Wentling
Ronald L. Wentling
Double funeral services for Reuben L. Wentling, 57, and his son, Ronald Levi, 12, who were slain at their home near Wentling's Corner, Friday night was held in St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, near Knox, at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon.
Rev. F. F. Fischer, pastor of the church, officated and burial was in the church cemetery.
Reuben Wentling was the son of Washington and Elizabeth Dittman Wentling and was born in Beaver Township, Clarion County, on June 11, 1883. For the past 30 years he had been employed by the Pennsylvania Fuel Supply Company and had resided near Wentling's Corner, on route 2, Knox, his entire life.
He was a member of the Knox Knights of Pythias, and the St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church.
He was united in marriage 34 years ago and is survived by his wife, Mrs. Olive Fye Wentling, and three daughters, Mrs. Merle Over, Mrs. Wyllis Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Wentling, all of Knox, R.D.2. Two grandchildren also survive.
Souce: The Clarion Democrate newspaper, issue Thursday, 2 January 1941, page 8.
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Slain Father and Son Buried At State Town
Knox, PA;31 Dec 1940
After a single funeral ceremony at St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, Reuben L. Wentling, 57, and his 12-year-old son Reuben, Jr, slain at their farm home near here, were buried side by side yesterday. Members of a Boy Scout Troop to which young Wentling belonged acted as pallbearers.
Frank Dearolph, 43, mechanic and nephew of Wentling, is charged with killing the father and son. Sheriff M. O. McKinley, who said Dearolph admitted to shooting Wentling because he blamed him for the death of his own father in 1913, reported the prisoner appeared "quite relieved" and was eating heartily and sleeping well in jail.
Source: The Public Opionion, newspaper in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; issue Tuesday, 31 Dec 1940, page 2.
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Death Certificate #115447, Venango County, Pennsylvania
Name on Death Certificate: Ruby Wentling (Ruben Wentling)
Parents:
Washington Wentling, born Knox, PA
Elizabeth Dittman
Spouse: Ollie / Olive Frye
Occupation: Fieldman for Penna. Fuel Company, worked for company for 35 years.
Residence at time of death: Beaver Township, RD2 Knox, PA.
Age at death: 57 years, 6 months, 17 days
Location of death: Oil City, Venango County, Oil City Hospital.
Cause of death: gun shot on left side going down through ....[sorry can not read writing]; "homicide".
"bullet wounds through the head and abdomen caused the boy's death".
Informant at time of death: Mrs. Merle Over, of Knox, Pennsylvania [daughter].
Burial: 30 Dec 1940, St Pauls Union Cemetery, Clarion County, Pennyslvania.
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DEATHS
Reuben L. Wentling
Ronald L. Wentling
Double funeral services for Reuben L. Wentling, 57, and his son, Ronald Levi, 12, who were slain at their home near Wentling's Corner, Friday night was held in St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, near Knox, at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon.
Rev. F. F. Fischer, pastor of the church, officated and burial was in the church cemetery.
Reuben Wentling was the son of Washington and Elizabeth Dittman Wentling and was born in Beaver Township, Clarion County, on June 11, 1883. For the past 30 years he had been employed by the Pennsylvania Fuel Supply Company and had resided near Wentling's Corner, on route 2, Knox, his entire life.
He was a member of the Knox Knights of Pythias, and the St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church.
He was united in marriage 34 years ago and is survived by his wife, Mrs. Olive Fye Wentling, and three daughters, Mrs. Merle Over, Mrs. Wyllis Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Wentling, all of Knox, R.D.2. Two grandchildren also survive.
Souce: The Clarion Democrate newspaper, issue Thursday, 2 January 1941, page 8.
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Slain Father and Son Buried At State Town
Knox, PA;31 Dec 1940
After a single funeral ceremony at St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, Reuben L. Wentling, 57, and his 12-year-old son Reuben, Jr, slain at their farm home near here, were buried side by side yesterday. Members of a Boy Scout Troop to which young Wentling belonged acted as pallbearers.
Frank Dearolph, 43, mechanic and nephew of Wentling, is charged with killing the father and son. Sheriff M. O. McKinley, who said Dearolph admitted to shooting Wentling because he blamed him for the death of his own father in 1913, reported the prisoner appeared "quite relieved" and was eating heartily and sleeping well in jail.
Source: The Public Opionion, newspaper in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; issue Tuesday, 31 Dec 1940, page 2.
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Source of information:
Death Certificate #115447, Venango County, Pennsylvania
Name on Death Certificate: Ruby Wentling (Ruben Wentling)
Parents:
Washington Wentling, born Knox, PA
Elizabeth Dittman
Spouse: Ollie / Olive Frye
Occupation: Fieldman for Penna. Fuel Company, worked for company for 35 years.
Residence at time of death: Beaver Township, RD2 Knox, PA.
Age at death: 57 years, 6 months, 17 days
Location of death: Oil City, Venango County, Oil City Hospital.
Cause of death: gun shot on left side going down through ....[sorry can not read writing]; "homicide".
"bullet wounds through the head and abdomen caused the boy's death".
Informant at time of death: Mrs. Merle Over, of Knox, Pennsylvania [daughter].
Burial: 30 Dec 1940, St Pauls Union Cemetery, Clarion County, Pennyslvania.
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DEATHS
Reuben L. Wentling
Ronald L. Wentling
Double funeral services for Reuben L. Wentling, 57, and his son, Ronald Levi, 12, who were slain at their home near Wentling's Corner, Friday night was held in St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, near Knox, at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon.
Rev. F. F. Fischer, pastor of the church, officated and burial was in the church cemetery.
Reuben Wentling was the son of Washington and Elizabeth Dittman Wentling and was born in Beaver Township, Clarion County, on June 11, 1883. For the past 30 years he had been employed by the Pennsylvania Fuel Supply Company and had resided near Wentling's Corner, on route 2, Knox, his entire life.
He was a member of the Knox Knights of Pythias, and the St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church.
He was united in marriage 34 years ago and is survived by his wife, Mrs. Olive Fye Wentling, and three daughters, Mrs. Merle Over, Mrs. Wyllis Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Wentling, all of Knox, R.D.2. Two grandchildren also survive.
Souce: The Clarion Democrate newspaper, issue Thursday, 2 January 1941, page 8.
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Slain Father and Son Buried At State Town
Knox, PA;31 Dec 1940
After a single funeral ceremony at St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, Reuben L. Wentling, 57, and his 12-year-old son Reuben, Jr, slain at their farm home near here, were buried side by side yesterday. Members of a Boy Scout Troop to which young Wentling belonged acted as pallbearers.
Frank Dearolph, 43, mechanic and nephew of Wentling, is charged with killing the father and son. Sheriff M. O. McKinley, who said Dearolph admitted to shooting Wentling because he blamed him for the death of his own father in 1913, reported the prisoner appeared "quite relieved" and was eating heartily and sleeping well in jail.
Source: The Public Opionion, newspaper in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; issue Tuesday, 31 Dec 1940, page 2.
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Death Certificate #115447, Venango County, Pennsylvania
Name on Death Certificate: Ruby Wentling (Ruben Wentling)
Parents:
Washington Wentling, born Knox, PA
Elizabeth Dittman
Spouse: Ollie / Olive Frye
Occupation: Fieldman for Penna. Fuel Company, worked for company for 35 years.
Residence at time of death: Beaver Township, RD2 Knox, PA.
Age at death: 57 years, 6 months, 17 days
Location of death: Oil City, Venango County, Oil City Hospital.
Cause of death: gun shot on left side going down through ....[sorry can not read writing]; "homicide".
"bullet wounds through the head and abdomen caused the boy's death".
Informant at time of death: Mrs. Merle Over, of Knox, Pennsylvania [daughter].
Burial: 30 Dec 1940, St Pauls Union Cemetery, Clarion County, Pennyslvania.
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DEATHS
Reuben L. Wentling
Ronald L. Wentling
Double funeral services for Reuben L. Wentling, 57, and his son, Ronald Levi, 12, who were slain at their home near Wentling's Corner, Friday night was held in St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, near Knox, at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon.
Rev. F. F. Fischer, pastor of the church, officated and burial was in the church cemetery.
Reuben Wentling was the son of Washington and Elizabeth Dittman Wentling and was born in Beaver Township, Clarion County, on June 11, 1883. For the past 30 years he had been employed by the Pennsylvania Fuel Supply Company and had resided near Wentling's Corner, on route 2, Knox, his entire life.
He was a member of the Knox Knights of Pythias, and the St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church.
He was united in marriage 34 years ago and is survived by his wife, Mrs. Olive Fye Wentling, and three daughters, Mrs. Merle Over, Mrs. Wyllis Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Wentling, all of Knox, R.D.2. Two grandchildren also survive.
Souce: The Clarion Democrate newspaper, issue Thursday, 2 January 1941, page 8.
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Slain Father and Son Buried At State Town
Knox, PA;31 Dec 1940
After a single funeral ceremony at St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, Reuben L. Wentling, 57, and his 12-year-old son Reuben, Jr, slain at their farm home near here, were buried side by side yesterday. Members of a Boy Scout Troop to which young Wentling belonged acted as pallbearers.
Frank Dearolph, 43, mechanic and nephew of Wentling, is charged with killing the father and son. Sheriff M. O. McKinley, who said Dearolph admitted to shooting Wentling because he blamed him for the death of his own father in 1913, reported the prisoner appeared "quite relieved" and was eating heartily and sleeping well in jail.
Source: The Public Opionion, newspaper in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; issue Tuesday, 31 Dec 1940, page 2.
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