OBIT: Roy D. DEIST, 1976, formerly of Boswell, Somerset County, PA

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  DEIST
  
    First Lieutenant Roy D. Deist, 24, Fort Dix, N.J., formerly of Boswell,
  died March 27, 1976, at Lancaster General Hospital as a result of injuries
  received after being thrown by a horse.  Born Aug. 10, 1951, in Somerset a
  son of James Daniel and Ethel (Emert) Deist.  Survived by his parents of
  Boswell.  Was a brother of Larry E. of Manheim, Pa., and Sandra L., wife of
  Richard Bowser of East Petersburg, Pa.  Also survived by maternal
  grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Emert, Somerset.  A graduate of the
  Boswell campus, North Star High School, class of 1969, and Indiana
  University of Pennsylvania, class of 1972.  He was a range officer at Fort
  Dix Army Training Center.  Friends were received Sunday evening and will be
  received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday (today) at Joseph G. Hoffman
  Funeral Home, 409 Main St., Boswell, where services will be held at 2 p.m.
  Tuesday with the Rev. Richard M. Smith officiating.  Interment, Jenner
  Crossroads Cemetery.   Military service in charge of Fort Indiantown Gap
  Military Reservation.
  
  Somerset American  March 29, 1976
  
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