OBIT: Wilson Jerome BITTNER, 1940, native of Somerset County, PA

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WILSON JEROME BITTNER

  Wilson Jerome Bittner, for the past several years a resident of Sherman 
Street, died suddenly last Thursday at 10:30 a.m., while at work quarrying rock 
on the Galen Peck farm, a short distance west of Meyersdale, which was being 
used on a Meyersdale W.P.A. project.
  Mr. Bittner went to work in the morning, as usual, and did not complain of not 
feeling well.  He worked for perhaps two hours, when he was missed by his co-
laborers, who went in search of him and shortly found him a short distance from 
where they were working lying face downward, apparently dead, which upon 
examination, was found to be the case.
  The coroner was notified, who ascribed death due to a heart attack.
  Before locating in Meyersdale, Mr. Bittner had been engaged in farming, and 
had lived here for about two years.  He was a native of Somerset County and was 
62 years of age on the 8th of last September. Besides his wife, Mrs. Margaret 
(Ackerman) Bittner, he is survived by the following children: Mrs. George 
Snyder, of Somerset; Mrs. William Stein, Jr., of Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Robert 
Lindeman and Harry Bittner, both of Meyersdale.  A sister, Mrs. Simon Keefer, 
resides in Larimer Township.
  He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church, Meyersdale, and the P.O.S. and A., of 
Berlin.  Brief funeral services were held at the Bittner home at 2:30 p.m. and 
at 3:00 in Zion Lutheran Church, on Sunday, Oct. 20, the pastor, Rev. Howard K. 
Hilner, officiating.  Interment was in Fritz Lutheran Cemetery under the 
direction of H. R. Konhaus, local mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, October 24, 1940