ENGINEER DIES AT LOCOMOTIVE THROTTLE
Ralph K. Leffler, age 51 years, an engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died suddenly while at the throttle of a locomotive on a freight train run on the Wilkes-Barre Division, Saturday evening. Death was attributed to a heart attack.
The train was enroute to Harrisburg, had reached Ravan, about five miles from Sunbury when Fireman R. C. Witmer, of Halifax, saw Leffler slump in his seat and he stopped the train.
Leffler was taken by an ambulance to the Sunbury Community Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
C. L. Ruggles, engineer, of Northumberland, was called to complete the train’s run to Harrisburg.
Mr. Leffler was a son of the late Daniel Leffler and Sarah [Klock] Leffler, and was a native of Millersburg. He had been a resident of Sunbury twenty-seven years.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Carrie [Russell] Leffler,; four children, Mrs. Mark E. Dubendorf, of Baltimore; Lieutenant Raymond F. Leffler, of the Army Air Forces, Idaho; Robert W. Leffler, of Sunbury; of Ralph W. Leffler, of Rochester, New York. Other survivors are: four grandchildren, one sister, and two brothers: Mrs. Maude Radle, of Millersburg; Byron B. Leffler, of Duncannon; and Michael E. Leffler, of Trevorton, of Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, with the Rev. Carl Honeycutt, pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Sunbury, officiating. Interment was made in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Danville.
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From a local newspaper at the time of his death, 1944.
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