Thomas J. Diehl

Thomas J. Diehl, 76, a retired contractor of Meadville, died yesterday at City Hospital of a heart ailment.  He had been ill about a week.

Son of Henry and Anna Willy Diehl, he was born April 4, 1880, in West Mead Township and lived his early life in Woodcock Township, where he worked on a farm and in a sawmill.  He married the former Elizabeth Dornhoefer in 1904.

In 1919, he moved to Meadville and became a building contractor.  He retired in 1940.

Mr. Diehl was a member of Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church, the church board of trustees, and the Zion Churchmen's Brotherhood; Meadville Kiwanis Club, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was a director of the Home Building and Loan Assn.

Surviving are his widow; a brother, Rodney of San Diego, CA; two nephews, Floyd and Rodney, both of Meadville; and two nephews and a niece in Cincinnati, OH.

Services were held at Waid Funeral Home.

Interment was in Greendale Cemetery.