Early life Pfuhl was born in Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, in 1928 to German immigrant parents who had moved to the United States during the 1920s. Pfuhl's father, Herbert L. Pfuhl, moved to Johnstown from
Berlin, Germany. He then earned a
bachelor's degree from the
University of Pittsburgh. The flood heavily damaged the facilities of
Bethlehem Steel, which was Johnstown's major employer at the time, with 12,000 employees during pre-flood 1977. Pfuhl lost his re-election bid in 1977 to Democrat Charles "Kutch" Tomljanovic, largely due to the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown flood, which proved one of the biggest challenges of his political career. Pfuhl remained out of office for just one term before being re-elected as mayor in the 1981 election and re-took the mayor's office in 1982. The appointment made Weaver the first female police chief in Pennsylvania. and remaining in office until 1996 Pfuhl died at Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on August 19, 2011, aged 83. ==References==