From Hazleton PA Plain Speaker, Thurs. Dec. 30, 1937:
Funeral services for Howard V. Mayer, proprietor of the Markle Bank building barber shop who died suddenly from a heart attack last night, will be held privately Saturday afternoon. Services will be conducted at the residence by Rev. F.T. Esterly, D.D., of the Christ Lutheran church and interment will be in the Vine Street cemetery. Mr. Mayer, who had been ill with grippe for several days, was stricken at 9:30 and passed away while sitting in bed talking to his brother-in-law, William Schmauch and Con Heller, an employee of his shop.
Howard Van Mayer was a son of Adolph and Mrs. Margaret Mayer and was born at Danville, Pa., but as a youth he located in Hazleton, and at once entered the employ of his brother, Harry Mayer, who conducted a barber shop in the Central Hotel (now the Loughran) and there he learned the trade that was to be his life's work. For the past fifty-seven years he had worked at the barber trade in Hazleton and but few if any of the pioneers of the Mountain City were not listed among his clientele of patrons. In his shop today there are, as a last semblance of a fading generation, the private shaving mugs of men who once were the leading citizens of this mountain city. Mr. Mayer is the last of a family that settled in Hazleton in the early days of the city's growth, his late brother, Dr. Oliver Mayer being buried in the middlewest last spring. His family was one the founders of the Hazleton Gas Co., now the Luzerne County Gas and Electric Corp. Mr. Mayer moved his barber shop from the old Central Hotel to the Markle Bank building more than a quarter of a century ago, when that building was first opened, and the shop is still in the same location.
He was a member of Christ Lutheran congregation of this city. Surviving is his widow, nee Martha Schmauch, also a member of a pioneer Hazleton family.
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PA Death Certificate:
son of Adolph and Dortha, both born in Germany. He was a barber.
Funeral services for Howard V. Mayer, proprietor of the Markle Bank building barber shop who died suddenly from a heart attack last night, will be held privately Saturday afternoon. Services will be conducted at the residence by Rev. F.T. Esterly, D.D., of the Christ Lutheran church and interment will be in the Vine Street cemetery. Mr. Mayer, who had been ill with grippe for several days, was stricken at 9:30 and passed away while sitting in bed talking to his brother-in-law, William Schmauch and Con Heller, an employee of his shop.
Howard Van Mayer was a son of Adolph and Mrs. Margaret Mayer and was born at Danville, Pa., but as a youth he located in Hazleton, and at once entered the employ of his brother, Harry Mayer, who conducted a barber shop in the Central Hotel (now the Loughran) and there he learned the trade that was to be his life's work. For the past fifty-seven years he had worked at the barber trade in Hazleton and but few if any of the pioneers of the Mountain City were not listed among his clientele of patrons. In his shop today there are, as a last semblance of a fading generation, the private shaving mugs of men who once were the leading citizens of this mountain city. Mr. Mayer is the last of a family that settled in Hazleton in the early days of the city's growth, his late brother, Dr. Oliver Mayer being buried in the middlewest last spring. His family was one the founders of the Hazleton Gas Co., now the Luzerne County Gas and Electric Corp. Mr. Mayer moved his barber shop from the old Central Hotel to the Markle Bank building more than a quarter of a century ago, when that building was first opened, and the shop is still in the same location.
He was a member of Christ Lutheran congregation of this city. Surviving is his widow, nee Martha Schmauch, also a member of a pioneer Hazleton family.
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PA Death Certificate:
son of Adolph and Dortha, both born in Germany. He was a barber.
From Hazleton PA Plain Speaker, Thurs. Dec. 30, 1937:
Funeral services for Howard V. Mayer, proprietor of the Markle Bank building barber shop who died suddenly from a heart attack last night, will be held privately Saturday afternoon. Services will be conducted at the residence by Rev. F.T. Esterly, D.D., of the Christ Lutheran church and interment will be in the Vine Street cemetery. Mr. Mayer, who had been ill with grippe for several days, was stricken at 9:30 and passed away while sitting in bed talking to his brother-in-law, William Schmauch and Con Heller, an employee of his shop.
Howard Van Mayer was a son of Adolph and Mrs. Margaret Mayer and was born at Danville, Pa., but as a youth he located in Hazleton, and at once entered the employ of his brother, Harry Mayer, who conducted a barber shop in the Central Hotel (now the Loughran) and there he learned the trade that was to be his life's work. For the past fifty-seven years he had worked at the barber trade in Hazleton and but few if any of the pioneers of the Mountain City were not listed among his clientele of patrons. In his shop today there are, as a last semblance of a fading generation, the private shaving mugs of men who once were the leading citizens of this mountain city. Mr. Mayer is the last of a family that settled in Hazleton in the early days of the city's growth, his late brother, Dr. Oliver Mayer being buried in the middlewest last spring. His family was one the founders of the Hazleton Gas Co., now the Luzerne County Gas and Electric Corp. Mr. Mayer moved his barber shop from the old Central Hotel to the Markle Bank building more than a quarter of a century ago, when that building was first opened, and the shop is still in the same location.
He was a member of Christ Lutheran congregation of this city. Surviving is his widow, nee Martha Schmauch, also a member of a pioneer Hazleton family.
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PA Death Certificate:
son of Adolph and Dortha, both born in Germany. He was a barber.
Funeral services for Howard V. Mayer, proprietor of the Markle Bank building barber shop who died suddenly from a heart attack last night, will be held privately Saturday afternoon. Services will be conducted at the residence by Rev. F.T. Esterly, D.D., of the Christ Lutheran church and interment will be in the Vine Street cemetery. Mr. Mayer, who had been ill with grippe for several days, was stricken at 9:30 and passed away while sitting in bed talking to his brother-in-law, William Schmauch and Con Heller, an employee of his shop.
Howard Van Mayer was a son of Adolph and Mrs. Margaret Mayer and was born at Danville, Pa., but as a youth he located in Hazleton, and at once entered the employ of his brother, Harry Mayer, who conducted a barber shop in the Central Hotel (now the Loughran) and there he learned the trade that was to be his life's work. For the past fifty-seven years he had worked at the barber trade in Hazleton and but few if any of the pioneers of the Mountain City were not listed among his clientele of patrons. In his shop today there are, as a last semblance of a fading generation, the private shaving mugs of men who once were the leading citizens of this mountain city. Mr. Mayer is the last of a family that settled in Hazleton in the early days of the city's growth, his late brother, Dr. Oliver Mayer being buried in the middlewest last spring. His family was one the founders of the Hazleton Gas Co., now the Luzerne County Gas and Electric Corp. Mr. Mayer moved his barber shop from the old Central Hotel to the Markle Bank building more than a quarter of a century ago, when that building was first opened, and the shop is still in the same location.
He was a member of Christ Lutheran congregation of this city. Surviving is his widow, nee Martha Schmauch, also a member of a pioneer Hazleton family.
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PA Death Certificate:
son of Adolph and Dortha, both born in Germany. He was a barber.
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