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 1884 - 1944 (59 years)
A. B. (Bert) Silman Dies at His Home
A. B. (Bert), 56, sign painter, and lifelong resident of Charleston, died at 4 a. m. yesterday at his home, 18 1/2 Alderson St. after a few days illness. He was the son of the late Peter Silman, and operated the Silman Sign Co.
He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and I. O. O. F. lodges and Central Methodist church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Smith Silman; a son, Jack, at home; two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Higginbotham of Charleston and Mrs. Fred White of Clendenin; a brother, Emmett Silman of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Services will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at Central Methodist church. Rev. E. J. Scott and Rev. Pat Withrow, jr. will officiate. Burial will be in Spring Hill cemetery. The body will remain at the Bartlett mortuary until funeral time.
The body will be taken to the church at 2 p. m. tomorrow.
--Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia, September 14, 1944
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