OBIT: Charles Richard "Dick" BANTZ, 2000, Berlin, Somerset County, PA
  
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  BANTZ
  
  Charles Richard (Dick) Bantz, 75, of Berlin, died Sept. 7, 2001  at home. 
  Born Nov. 20, 1925 in Massillon, Ohio.  Son of Charles and Cleo (Kaley)
  Bantz.  Preceded in death by parents, and a brother.  Survived by wife of
  51 years the former Betty Jane Durnell, Meadow  View Nursing Center,
  Berlin, and daughter Joy married to Rostyslave Melnyk; Indianapolis, Mnd.,
  also survived by two grandchildren: Hillary Dawson; Port Clinton,  Ohio and
  Adriana Melnyk; Indianapolis, Ind.  A Navy veteran of World War II where he
  served with P.H.M. III Evacuation Iwojma, Okinawa and received a Purple
  Heart for wounds on Beach Party Iwojma on third wave. He was a college
  graduate of Otterbein College.  He received his Masters Degree from Akron
  University.  He served on the Massillon Board of Education.  He was an
  elementary education principal for 24 years, he was the last principal at
  Brookfield Elementary School and the first Principal at
  Gonell Elementary School.  No viewing or receiving friends.  Friends are
  welcome to attend a memorial service followed by Military Service at 4 p.m.
  Thursday in the Deaner Funeral Home, Berlin.
  
  Daily American, September 11, 2000
  
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