Person:Bruce Lichty (1)

Published on Tues , March 11, 1941
Meyersdale, March 11 - Dr. Bruce Lichty, 75 years old, well-known physician of Somerset county and located at Meyersdale for about 40 years, died Sunday morning at the Hazel McGilvery Hospital where he was removed last Wednesday following a heart attack. He had also practiced his profession at Rockwood and Grantsville, Md. Dr. Lichty was born August 4, 1865, on the old Nichols farm in Addison township, Somerset county, a son of the late David and Elizabeth Keim Lichty. He attended the Meyersdale Preparatory School conducted by the late Professor D. Meese, Brethren College at Mount Morris, Ill., and the University of Pennsylvania from which he received his degree in 1892. Dr. Lichty was appointed a local surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and from 1915 to 1939 he served in a similar capacity for the Western Maryland Railroad. He was also a member of the Somerset County Medical Society, Tri-State Medical Society and American Medical Association. Dr. Lichty was active in civic and church affairs, having served as a member of the borough council and school board. For 15 years he headed the tuberculosis clinic of this community. At the time of his death he had charge of the well baby clinic, which for a number of years has been maintained here by the State Board of Health. He has been an elder in Amity Evangelical and Reformed Church for a number of years, was president of the Sand Spring Water Company, and held a directorship in the Second National Bank. Before taking up the practice of medicine, he taught school for several terms. A World War veteran, he was a member of the Medical Corps of the U. S. Army and served 18 months in France with the American Expeditionary forces with the rank of captain. Dr. Lichty was twice married. His first wife, who died a number of years ago, was Fanny Getty, of Grantsville, Md., daughter of the late William R. Getty, who served as a member of the Maryland State Senate. On September 12, 1933, he was married to Miss Fanny Graves, a native of Meyersdale, but who had been residing in Cleveland, Ohio, prior to her marriage. In addition to his second wife, he is survived by two children, Mrs. Harry Hostetler of Meyersdale, and Mrs. Leland Becker of Wheelwright, Kentucky, one granddaughter and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Petry of Salisbury and Miss Annie Beachy of Carieton, Nebraska. The funeral service was held Monday afternoon at Amity Evangelical and Reformed Church. Rev. Nelson C. Brown, pastor, and Dr. Blanchard Allan Black, former pastor, officiated. Burial was in Union Cemetery, Meyersdale.