OBIT: Diana Marie (ASH) BITTINGER, 1985, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  DIANA M. BITTINGER
  
    Diana Marie Bittinger, 44, died Thursday Aug. 22, 1985, at Sacred
  Heart Hospital., Cumberland, Md.  She had been in ill health since
  November, 1983.
    Born in Meyersdale, she was a daughter of Mrs. Clara (Shaffer)
  Boden, Ellerslie, Md., and the late Eugene Ash.
    She was employed as a seamstress at Londontown Manufacturing
  Company, Hancock, Md.  She was a member of the Hancock Church of God.
    Surviving in addition to her mother are her stepfather, Melvin
  Boden, Ellerslie, Md.; her husband, Melvin W. Bittinger; one
  daughter, Mrs. Donna Lee Powell, Ellerslie; a son, Melvin E.
  Bittinger, Hagerstown, Md.; a sister, Mrs. Arlene Crawford, Shaft,
  Md.; and two brothers, Eugene Ash and William Brant, both of
  Frostburg, Md.
    Friends were received at the Hafer Chapel of the Hills Mortuary,
  LaVale, Md.
  
  The Republic, August 29, 1985
  
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