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Subject: Obit--Robert Menegay--Stark County
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:32:47 EDT

ROBERT H. MENEGAY, 47, FORMER LEGISLATOR, DIES
Robert H. Menegay of N. Chapel St., Louisville, who served a term in the Ohio
House of Representatives in 1947 - 48 and last December was appointed acting
Postmaster in Louisville, died Thursday night in Mercy Hospital.
Mr. Menegay, 47, had been a patient in the hospital since May 30, suffering
from a heart ailment. He took over the duties of Postmaster Jan. 1 but was
forced to resign several months later due to ill health.
Prominent in Democratic circles, Mr. Menegay was serving as Sergeant-at-arms
of the Ohio Senate when he was appointed Postmaster. He was a life resident
of Louisville and attended Louisville parochial school and Louisville High
School.
For more than 25 years, Mr. Menegay owned and operated a barber shop in
Louisville. He was a member of St. Louis Catholic church, Rotary Club,
Knights of Columbus, and Louisville Sportsman's Club. While serving in the
Ohio legislature, he fostered the strip-mine bill.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Marian Menegay; two brothers Raymond A. of
Louisville, and Austin F. Menegay of Canton, and two sisters, Mrs. Cecelia
Leininger of Canton, and Mrs. Wilda Dudley of Louisville.
A Requiem High Mass was sung Monday at 10:00 a. m. in St. Louis Catholic
church. Rev. Fr. Paul Dehnke officiated. Burial in the church cemetery.
Serving as pall-bearers were L.C. Koehn, E.C. Lair, D.E. Lothamer, Howard D.
Neel, H.J. Shoemaker and C.Q. Zahner. The body was at the Stier Funeral Home.
Taken from the Louisville Herald. Date of death, 2 Aug. 1951. Submitted by
Anita A. Rippel

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