OBIT: Elmer Ellsworth BRENNEMAN, 1945, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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ELMER E. BRENNEMAN

  Elmer Ellsworth Brenneman, 21, son of the late Simon and Mrs. Susie Brenneman 
of Bittinger, Md., died March 29, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, where he 
has been a patient for five weeks, following an operation for removal of a 
tumor.
  He graduated from the Grantsville High School, class of 1940, and was employed 
as carpenter in Washington, D.C., for two years.  The last two years he was on 
the home farm with his mother.
  Surviving are his mother, four brothers - Harold, at home; Lawrence, of 
Bittinger; Cpl. Russell Brenneman and T/5 Homer Brenneman, with the armed forces 
in Germany, and two sisters, Fern, at home, and Mrs. Walter Krause of Frostburg, 
Md.
  Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Bittinger Lutheran Church 
with Rev. George Bowersox, pastor of the Grantsville Lutheran Church, 
officiating.
  The pallbearers were cousins, Bruce, Glen, Dale, Harry, Robert and Martin 
Brenneman.  Interment in the church cemetery nearby.

Meyersdale Republican, April 5, 1945