OBIT: Albert J. BITTNER, 1975, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA
  
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  MR. BITTNER
  
    Albert J. Bittner, 65, Salisbury, vice president of the board of
  directors of Meyersdale Community Hospital and former owner and
  operator of Bittner Service Center, Salisbury, died Tuesday, April
  22, 1975, in Meyersdale Community Hospital.
    He was also a director of Salisbury Industrial Association and a
  life member of Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department.
    For more than 40 years Mr. Bittner was an amateur radio operator
  and operated Station W2GGL and had maintained regular schedules with
  the Capuchin Mission in New Guinea.  To other operators he was known
  as "Pic" and was a member of the Mountain Amateur Radio Club of
  Cumberland.
    He had attended Bucknell University at Lewisburg.
    A native of Meyersdale, Mr. Bittner was born March 10, 1910 a son
  of the late Frank A. and Mary (Jenkin) Bittner.  His first wife,
  Isabelle (Wagner) Bittner, preceded him in death.
    Surviving are his second wife, Evelyn (Goodman) Solosko Bittner,
  Salisbury; two stepchildren: Robert Solosko, Buffalo, N.Y.; and Mrs.
  Joan Soloman, Cedarhurst, N.Y.; a sister, Mrs. Helen Korns, Somerset;
  and six 
  grandchildren.
    Funeral service was conducted Friday afternoon in Thomas Funeral
  Home, Salisbury, with Rev. George E. Bowersox officiating.  Interment
  in Salisbury Cemetery.
  
  Meyersdale Republic, May 1, 1975
  
  [B1554]