This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Geeting, Watson, Deeds Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2dB.2ACI/2672 Message Board Post: The Ligonier, PA "Echo" issue of 3 September 1965, p. 2, cols. 4-5 MILTON E. GEETING Milton Edward Geeting of 519 W. Main street, Ligonier, a well-known musician in this area and onetime (1956-60) member of the Borough Council, died Sunday in Latrobe Hospital after a lengthy illness. He was 72. Rev. Benton R. McKee conducted services Tuesday in Sibel-Wolford Funeral home, and Mr. Geeting was buried in Ligonier Valley Cemetery. He was born Oct. 1, 1892, in Ligonier, son of David A. & Mary Ann Deeds Geeting, graduated from Ligonier High School in 1910. He was a train dispatcher and car distributor for the Ligonier Valley Railroad until it ceased operations in 1952, and since then had been employed at the administration building of Rolling Rock Farms. Years ago he was a member of the now defunct Ligonier Cornet Band: he remembered the concerts he played during the Ligonier Sesqui-centennial in 1908. A life member of the American Federation of Musicians, he played everything from serious music (the Greensburg Concert Band, etc.) to dance music; he played in fireman's bands and fiddled for square dances. Music was his avocation. A veteran of World War I, he was a past-commander of Byers-Tosh American Legion Post 267; he was a member of the Methodist Church, Ligonier Masonic Lodge 331, Coudersport Consistory, and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon. He leaves his widow (the former Amy Watson), a son (Milton Robert of Pittsburgh), a daughter (Mrs. H.C. Carlson Jr. of Berwyn), a brother and a sister (George D. Geeting and Mrs. James W. Hunter of Ligonier) and six grandchildren. ______________________________________________ Ligonier Valley Cemetery, Ligonier, Westmoreland County, PA Transcribed & photographed 6 August 2002 by Michael S. Caldwell GEETING MILTON E. / 1892 - 1965 AMY W. / 1895 - 1992 ______________________________________________