OBIT: Charles Wilbur DERRY, 1989, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  CHARLES WILBUR DERRY
  
    Charles Wilbur Derry, 75, of Greenbrier Drive, Morgantown, West Virginia
  died Wednesday, November 29, 1989 at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
  after a lengthy illness.
    He was born November 18, 1914 in Meyersdale, a son of the late Leo B. and
  Mary Edna Hoffman Derry.
    He was of the Roman Catholic Faith; was a Meteorologist working in
  Aeronautics for the FAA at Morgantown Municiple [sic] Airport; also
  operated the Erie Insurance Agency for many years.  He was a Veteran of
  World War II serving with the U.S. Air Force; was a member of the Beau
  Monde Dance Club and the B.O.P. Elks Lodge #411 of Morgantown, W.Va.
    He is survived by one sister Dorothy Elizabeth Neumar, of Pittsburgh; one
  niece and one nephew.  He was preceded in death by his wife Ethel B. Bracken
  Derry in July 1985; one daughter Alyson Lenhart, in 1972 and one brother,
  Ralph Derry.
    Friends were received at the Hastings Funeral Home where services were
  Saturday, December 2, at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Fr. Jude J. Mili, OFM
  officiating. Interment, East Oak Grove Cemetery.
  
  The New Republic, December 7, 1989
  
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