Jerry C. Gongaware

Jerry C. Gongaware, 83, formerly of Meadville, died Monday, June 29, 1964, at Spencer Hospital of a long illness which followed a stroke last March.

He was born at Irwin October 25, 1880, a son of Hezekiah and Martha Schaffer Gongaware.  A retired farmer, he had been employed for 18 years on the Jim Thomas Guernsey dairy farm.

He was a member of Brush Creek Lutheran Church near Greensburg.

Mr. Gongaware is survived by two sons, Gilbert of Pueblo, CO and J. Clark of New Stanton; ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.  His wife, the former Pearl Delphine Rose, and a daughter, Elizabeth Eleanor, preceded him in death.

Services were held at Waid Funeral Home.

Interment was in Roselawn Memorial Gardens.