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Notes for Lewis Summerl III SOMERS
Services have been set for Lewis S. Somers 3d, 85, a longtime member of the governing board of William Penn Charter School, and his wife, Elizabeth Forsyth Somers, 84, both of Lafayette Hill, who died at their summer home in Raymond, Maine, in late August.
A memorial service is to take place at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 9, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 22 E. Chestnut Hill Ave.
Officials in Maine said on Aug. 31 that the Somerses died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning at their home on Sabago Lake as an inadvertent result of Hurricane Irene, which struck there Aug. 28.
The Somerses were found Aug. 30 in their home, where a propane generator was running after the storm knocked out electricity for more than 48 hours.
Assistant Fire Chief Bruce Tupper said that firefighters took readings at the Somerses' home with a carbon monoxide detector that found levels "over the maximum on the meter."
A spokeswoman for Maine's medical examiner said Wednesday that the cause of death had not been confirmed, because her office was waiting for results of toxicology tests.
Born in Roxborough, Mr. Somers graduated from Penn Charter in 1944, interrupted his studies briefly for Army administrative work in Japan, and earned a bachelor's degree at Williams College in 1949.
Born in Conshohocken, Mrs. Somers graduated from Norristown High School in 1945 and from what is now the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1949.
A son, Lewis 4th, said that at his death, Mr. Somers was chairman of Harmac Medical Products Inc. in Buffalo, N.Y., a firm with which he had been involved since 1981.
Mrs. Somers was an administrator for the former Smith Kline & French pharmaceutical firm in the 1940s, her son said.
At Extracorporeal Medical Specialties in King of Prussia, his son said, Mr. Somers helped develop dialysis machines from 1965 until the firm was sold in 1978.
After hours, railroading was "a lifelong love," his son said.
A 1966 story reported that Mr. Somers was president of the New Hope & Ivyland Railroad, which was to begin operations on 16.7 miles of Bucks County track later that year.
A Penn Charter spokeswoman said that as an overseer, Mr. Somers had been a member of the school's governing board since 1973. He was its clerk from 1989 to 1995.
"Father was on the board of the Franklin Institute" at one time, son Lewis said, and "Mother was on the board of Morris Arboretum until her death."
She also was a volunteer at the antiques show of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and at the University of Pennsylvania Craft Show.
Besides their son Lewis, the Somerses are survived by a son, John; a daughter, Elizabeth Somers Stutzman; and two grandchildren.
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