OBIT: Walter A. BEACHY, 1987, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  WALTER A. BEACHY
  
    Walter A. Beachy, 88, died Monday, July 20, 1987, at the Forbes
  Metropolitan Health Center, Wilkinsburg, after a long illness.
    He was preceded in death by his wife, Goldie.
    Walter was the son of Joel A. and Etta A. Beachy, who lived on the Beachy
  Family farm on Route 40.
    His survivors include a daughter, Betty Rae Bean and a son, Walter A.,
  Jr., both of Pittsburgh; four brothers, Irvin J. of Pittsburgh, Roy, of
  Berlin, and Vernon and John, of Grantsville, Md.; and three sisters, Ruby
  Bittinger, of Akron, Ohio; June Beckett, of Inverness, Florida, and Evelyn
  Hewitt, of Grantsville, Md.; six grandchildren; and three
  great-grandchildren.
    He was vice-president of Beachy Motor Company, Lincoln-Mercury dealers,
  being in the business for over 40 years in Wilkinsburg.  He was a member of
  the Beulah Presbyterian Church in Churchill; Beta Duquesne Masonic Lodge No.
  546; Gateway Royal Arch Chapter No. 285; Knight Templars, Lincoln Commandery
  No. 91 and Shrine-Syria Temple.
    Friends were received at T.D. Turner Funeral Home.  Services were held at
  Beulah Presbyterian Church on July 23. Burial was in William Penn Memorial
  Cemetery.
  
  The Republic, August 20, 1987
  
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