OBIT: Walter Earl BITTNER, 2005, formerly of Somerset County, PA
  
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  BITTNER, Walter Earl  03/02/05  Daily American
  
  Walter Earl Bittner, 80, New Bethlehem, formerly of Somerset and Ohio, died
  Feb. 27, 2005, in the Indian Haven Nursing Home, Indiana, Pa. Born June 29,
  1924, in Somerset, a son of the late Orlo and Margaret Bittner. Also preceded
  in death by wife Susan E. Bittner, who died Dec. 7, 2001, a brother, Paul
  Bittner, several infant brothers and sisters and an infant daughter, Karen Jean
  Bittner. Survived by children Judy Krupper and husband, Patrick, Berlin; Gary
  Bittner and wife Nancy, Somerset; Debbie Hardesty and husband, Rod, Berlin; and
  Virginia Bittner, Stow, Ohio; grandchildren Jennifer and Christopher Bittner and
  a great-grandchild, Hunter Bittner. He was a retired bus driver for Trailways.
  He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard serving during World War II
  and the Korean Conflict aboard the USS Nashville and USS Somoly. He was a
  lifelong member of the New Bethlehem VFW, American Legion Post 354 and VFW Post
  554 of Somerset. Friends received 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Bish
  Memorial Funeral Home, New Bethlehem, where a service will be held 1 p.m.
  Friday. The Rev. Ben Shidledecker officiating. Interment Oakland Cemetery,
  Distant. Memorial contributions may be sent to the American Cancer Society or
  St. Judes Medical Research Hospital.