OBIT: George S. DIVELY, 1975, Berlin, Somerset County, PA
  
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    George S. Dively, Berlin civic leader and former president of Berlin
  Elementary School, died Feb. 17 in Memorial Hospital, Cumberland.  He was
  70.
    Mr. Dively died of complications caused by influenza after a brief
  illness.
    At the time of his death, he was serving as a director and dispatcher for
  the Berlin Ambulance Association and was chaplain and past president of the
  Berlin Fire Co.
              Active Citizen
    He was also serving as president of the Eastern Somerset County Municipal
  School Authority and was completing his 36th year as secretary of the Berlin
  Lions Club, of which he was also a charter member.
    Mr. Dively was a burgess of Berlin many years ago and president of the
  town council in the early 1940s.
    He began his teaching career in 1923 in the one-room schools at Pine Hill
  and McDonaldton and later moved to the grade school in Berlin, when it was
  erected.  Until 1967, he taught at the new elementary school, and served as
  principal for 27 years until his retirement six years ago.  His main
  subjects were geography and history.
    He was a member of the Berlin Brethren Church.
    His wife, the former Florence Philson, died in 1971, and Mr. Dively lived
  alone, as he wanted, visiting his children often and taking care of the
  ambulance calls from his home.
    He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Neil (Phyllis) Smith of
  Cumberland, Md., Mrs. Merrill (Betty June) Wymer of Wheeling, W.Va., and
  Mrs. Robert (Barbara Ann) Craig of Mount Morris, and two sons, William A.
  and Thomas P., both of Berlin.  There are 14 grandchildren and one
  great-grandchild.
    Services were conducted Feb. 21 in the Johnson and Son Funeral Home, the
  Rev. Ralph E. Mills officiating.  Interment was in the Berlin IOOF Cemetery.
  
  Meyersdale Republic, February 27, 1975
  
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