Post by Pat (Friend) Thompson on Mar 17, 2013 11:19:50 GMT -5
Paul McClellan Friend, a former resident of Oakland, died Friday, November 11, at the Good Samaritan hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he had been a patient for some weeks. Mr. Friend was born August 28, 1904, at Oakland, the son of George B. M. and Anna Frantz Friend. He was graduated from Oakland High School and beca me engaged as a chicken and dairy farmer in the area. He also served a term as a County Commissioner of Garrett County. He was married November 10, 1928, to Mildred G. Bowers. In the late summer of 1945 he and his family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, from Rutland, Ohio, having been in the chicken hatchery business there. He built the Georgetown Hatchery and Supply which he sold out in 1958 to a concern from Steubenville, Ohio, but continued to represent them for about a year. His business interest for the past year had been in the Sunset Bowling Lanes in Adams County, Ohio. He was a member of the first Methodist church of Georgetown. His first wife died January 4, 1956. On March 1, 1957, he married Freda Heuke, who survives him. Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Neil D. Wolfe, (Margaret), Mrs. Ralph Snider (Lois), Mrs. Bobby McElroy (Janet), and Mrs. Stephen Miller (Nancy), also four step-children, William and Robert Heuke, Mrs. Peggy Mason and Sonja Leslie; also ten grand-children; one brother, Lakin B. Friend, Normalville, Pa.; and four sisters, Mrs. Sara E. Rouzer, Connellsville, Pa.; Mrs. Hazel A. Moon; Mrs. Mary B. Riley and Mrs. Carrie M. Messe all of Oakland. Two brothers and three sisters are deceased. Mr. Friend served on the village council of Georgetown for several years and was a former president of the Business and Professional Men's Club and past president of the Georgetown Lions club. He was active in establishment of the Brown County hospital and spent much time in the promotion of the swimming pool for Georgetown, an organization of which he was its first president. Funeral services were conducted from the First Methodist church of Georgetown on Monday, November 14, and interment was in the Georgetown cemetery (November 1960)