OBIT: William R. DONALDSON, 1986, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
  
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  DONALDSON
  
  William R. Donaldson, 66 West Church Street, Somerset, died Sept. 2, 1986
  in Somerset Community Hospital.  Born Sept. 18, 1919, in Pittsburgh, son of
  the late Dr. William R. and Mae (Marshall) Donaldson.  Survived by his wife,
  the former Gertrude Christner; son, W. Richard Donaldson III, Somerset; and
  daughter, Mary, wife of Barry E. Deeter, Berlin; two stepsons; George, and
  Gerald Christner, Canton, Ohio; four granddaughters; one sister, Virginia,
  wife of Pastor George E. Bowersox Jr., Somerset; one niece, Marjorie
  Fiebinger, Austria, and one nephew, Edward Bowersox, Somerset.  Veteran of
  World War II, served overseas with the 79th Infantry Division.  Member of
  the VFW Post 554 Somerset, American Legion Post 181 Somerset; Somerset FOE
  Aerie 1801, BPO Elks Meyersdale Lodge, Meyersdale Lodge F. and A.M. 
  Friends will be received from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. today (Thursday) in the
  Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home, where services will be conducted Friday at
  11 a.m. with Pastor George E. Bowersox Jr. officiating.  Interment, Husband
  Cemetery.  In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer
  Society, Somerset.  Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 554 will conduct memorial
  services in the funeral home Thursday evening.
  
  Daily American, September 4, 1986
  
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