OBIT: Martha Elizabeth (WAHL) BITTNER, 1998, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  MARTHA BITTNER
  
    Martha Elizabeth Bittner, 83, of Front Royal, Va., died Wednesday,
  Feb. 25, 1998, in Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home, Winchester, Va.
    Born Sept. 27, 1914, in Meyersdale, she was a daughter of the late
  Harvey E. and Lizzie (Seigner) Wahl.  She was also preceded in death
  by her husband, Fay K. Bittner.
    Mrs. Bittner is survived by a son, Kenneth E. Bittner, Meyersdale;
  a daughter, Carol B. High, Front Royal, Va.; two sisters:  Hilda
  Baker, Meyersdale, and Hazel W. Shockey, Casselberry, Fla.; nine
  grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
    She was a member of the Bethel Assembly of God Church and the
  Salisbury American Legion Auxiliary.
    Friends were received at Newman Funeral Home, Inc., Salisbury, on
  Feb. 28.  Services were conducted March 1 at Cornerstone Assembly of
  God Church, Boynton, with the Revs. Donald Bradley and Garry Kipe
  officiating.  Interment, Union Cemetery, Meyersdale.
  
  New Republic, March 5, 1998
  
  [B1652]


  BITTNER
  
    Martha Elizabeth Bittner, 83, of Front Royal, Va. died Feb. 25,
  1998, in Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home, Winchester, Va.  Born Sept.
  27, 1914, in Meyersdale, she was a daughter of the late Harvey E. and
  Lizzie (Seigner) Wahl.  She was preceded in death by her husband, Fay
  K. Bittner, Meyersdale; a daughter, Carol B. High, Front Royal; 2
  sisters:  Hilda Baker, Meyersdale and Hazel W. Shockey, Casselberry,
  Fla.; 9 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.  Member of Bethel
  Assembly of God Church, Salisbury, American Legion Auxiliary. 
  Friends will be received at the Newman Funeral Home Inc., Salisbury
  on Saturday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.  Services will be conducted on Sunday at
  2 p.m. at Cornerstone Assembly of God Church, Boynton with the Rev.
  Donald Bradley and the Rev. Garry Kipe officiating.  Interment, Union
  Cemetery, Meyersdale.
  
  Daily American, February 27, 1998
  
  [B1653]