OBIT: Melvin Leroy DEAL, Sr., 1996, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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  MELVIN DEAL, SR.
  
    Melvin Leroy Deal, Sr., 74, of Meyersdale RD 3, died Saturday, Feb. 10,
  1996, at Sacred Heart Hospital, Cumberland, Md.
    Born Jan. 3, 1922, in Greenville Township, he was a son of the late
  William and Mary A. (Baer) Deal. He was also preceded in death by two
  brothers, Raymond and Robert, and two sisters, Betty and Dorothy.
    Deal was a member of Greenville Lutheran Church and was a retired sheet
  metal worker for Allegany Ballistics. An Army veteran of World War II, he
  was a member of Salisbury VFW Post 8826 and Grantsville American Legion
  Post 214.
    He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Bernice Mae (Paul) Deal; a son,
  Melvin Deal, Jr., Cumberland, Md.; six brothers: Ralph Deal, West
  Salisbury; Donald, Paul and John Deal, all of Meyersdale; Walter and Carl
  Deal, both of Finzel, Md.; five sisters: Ethel Clark and Kathleen Yutzy,
  both of Meyersdale; Edna Brown and Marybelle Brown, both of Finzel, Md.;
  Pauline Glotfelty, Akron, Ohio; three grandchildren: Lisa Marie Zembower,
  Rodney Leroy Deal and Tara Ann Deal, and one great-grandson, Nathan Michael
  Zembower.
    Friends were received at Newman Funeral Home, Salisbury. Services were
  conducted Wednesday at Greenville Lutheran Church, the Rev. David Fetter
  officiating. Interment, Greenville Cemetery. Military rites were accorded
  by area veteran service organizations.
  
  New Republic, February 15, 1996
  
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