OBIT: Rev. William J. BEAN, 1974, Sipesville, Somerset County, PA

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  BEAN
  
  Rev. William J. Bean, 50, of Sipesville died March 21, 1974, in Somerset
  Community Hospital.  He was born Aug. 3, 1923, in Lebanon County, a son of
  the late William J. Bean.  He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Ellen Martin
  Bean of Bunker Hill RD 3, Lebanon.  Also survived by his wife, the former
  Mildred Zigler; and these children:  Lois Ann, Sandra Lou, Fred Craig, and
  Althea Mae, all home; and these sisters and brother:  Mrs. Walter (Rosa)
  Bernheisel, Mrs. Irwin (Rebecca) Kline, and Mrs. Herman (Violet) Pierce,
  all of Lebanon RD 3; Mrs. Earl (Anna) Troup, Conestoga RD 2; Mrs. Burton
  (Ester) Lange, Waynesboro; and Charles M. of Berrysburg.  He was a minister
  of Sipesville Church of the Brethren for the past five years.  Friends will
  be received after 2 p.m. Friday in the Richard E. Hauger Funeral Home. 
  Funeral services will be Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in the Sipesville Church of
  the Brethren with the Rev. John D. Ellis officiating.  Remains will lie in
  state at the church from 1 p.m. Saturday until service time.  Further
  services will be conducted Monday at 10:30 a.m. at the Palmyra Church of
  the Brethren, Palmyra, with the Rev. Donald Rummel officiating.  Interment,
  Bunker Hill E.C. Cemetery, Bunker Hill, Pa.  Friends will be received at the
  Rothermel Funeral Home in Palmyra from 7-9 p.m. Sunday.  Family suggests
  memorial gifts be given to the Sipesville Church of the Brethren.
  
  Daily American, March 22, 1974
  
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