OBIT: Harry E. "Pepper" DIEST, 2007, Berlin, Somerset County, PA
  
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  DIEST, Harry E. (Pepper)  05/09/07   Daily American
  
    Harry E. "Pepper" Diest, 82, Berlin, died May 8, 2007, at home. Born March 3, 1925, in
  Berlin, the son of Harry and Mildred (McKenzie) Deist. Preceded in death by parents;
  brother, Hubert; and a son, Craig. Survived by wife of 56 years, the former Helen Engle;
  and a son, Jody, Berlin. Brother of Charles, Shirley Rotnem, Ruth Kelly and Karen Norris.
  He is a World War II Army veteran. Employed as Callens Bread route salesman and
  owner/operator of Dairy Queen in La Vale, Md., and Blairsville. A member of Trinity
  United Church of Christ, Roxbury, and formerly of Mountain United Church of Christ, where
  he served as a deacon. Family will receive friends from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at
  Deaner Funeral Home, Berlin, where a service will be held 11 a.m. Friday. The Rev. Owen
  Preston officiating. Interment Berlin IOOF Cemetery. Memorial contri- butions may be
  given to "In Touch" Hospice, 223 S. Pleasant Ave., Suite 103, Somerset, PA 15501 or
  Trinity UCC, Roxbury, 9044 Glades Pike, Berlin, PA 15530.