OBIT: Galen Milton BITTNER, 1994, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  BITTNER
  
    Galen Milton Bittner, 89, Southwest Greensburg, died quietly March
  30, 1994 in Westmoreland Regional Hospital, Greensburg.  Born Feb.
  13, 1905, Mr. Bittner was the son of the late William and Corra
  Bittner, Rockwood.  Graduated from Rockwood High School in 1924, Mr.
  Bittner continued his education at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa.,
  where he was graduated with a major in mathematics in 1928.  Later he
  received a master's degree in mathematics from Penn State University,
  University Park, Pa.  Upon finishing his formal education, Mr.
  Bittner became a faculty member of the Altoona Public School System,
  where he began as an algebra teacher at Keith Junior High School,
  after which he taught higher mathematics at Altoona Senior High
  School.  In 1946 Mr. Bittner moved to Greensburg, Pa, where he became
  an insurance salesman until his retirement.  In addition to his life
  as an educator and as an insurance salesman, Mr. Bittner was also an
  ordained minister of the Church of the Brethren.  In 1932, Mr.
  Bittner married Valma Elizabeth (Barnhart) Bittner, his wife of 47
  years, who died in 1979.  Mr. Bittner was also preceded in death by a
  sister, Mary, and a brother, Foster. Mr. Bittner is survived by one
  brother, Emmert, Rockwood; one nephew, Conroy Guyer, Pittsburgh, and
  one sister-in-law, Audrey Helen (Barnhart) Guyer, Greensburg. 
  Friends will be received at the Bacha Funeral Home Inc., 516 Stanton
  at Green Streets, Greensburg, from noon until 1 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
  Sunday.  Funeral services will be held at the funeral home at 11 a.m.
  Monday, with the Rev. William A. Waugh officiating.  Interment will
  follow in Westmoreland County Memorial Park, Greensburg.
  
  Daily American, April 2, 1994
  
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