OBIT: Oliver BUCKEL, 1947, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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OLIVER BUCKEL

  Oliver Buckel, 68, died at his home at Bittinger, early Friday morning, 
December 5.  Funeral services were held in the Bittinger Lutheran Church, Sunday 
afternoon.
  Rev. Curt Runze, the pastor, and Rev. C. A. Shilke, of Lavansville, Pa., 
former pastor of the Oakland Lutheran Church, officiated.  Music was rendered by 
the church choir.  The pall-bearers were nephews of the deceased, Blake and 
Blair Buckel, Robert Brenneman, Richard, Max and David Buckel.  Interment in the 
church cemetery.
  Oliver Buckel was the son of the late Joseph and Alice (Bittinger) Buckel.  He 
was born at Bittinger.  He married Miss Ruth Shoup, a former Bittinger 
minister's daughter, who survives, with the following sons: Herbert, Rex, 
Joseph, Elbert and Ralph, all of Bittinger, and Kenneth of Keyser's Ridge.  
Three brothers, Edward and Lawrence Buckel of Bittinger and Charles Buckel of 
Cumberland, and sisters, Mrs. Lloyd Brenneman of Bittinger, and Mrs. William 
Durr of Cresaptown, Md., also survive.
  Mr. Buckel conducted a general store, did some farming, and also served as 
Star Route mail carrier from Bittinger to Grantsville.  He was an active member 
of the Lutheran Church and the Woodman of the World Camp of Bittinger.  He was 
also clerk and financial secretary of the W.O.W. Camp for a number of years.
  He was well known and had many friends in the community.  He was in ill health 
for several months, and was a patient in the Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, 
recently.

Meyersdale Republican, December 11, 1947