OBIT: William Stanley DREES, 1983, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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  WILLIAM S. DREES
  
    William Stanley Drees, 58, of RD 2, Finzel Road, Maryland, died suddenly
  January 11, 1983 while hauling wood with a small tractor near his home.
    He was born in Finzel, and was a son of Mrs. Dessie (Rosenberger)  Drees,
  who is a patient at the Frostburg Nursing Home, Maryland and the late
  Anthony Drees.
    He was a former employee of the Kaiser Refractories.  An Army veteran  of
  World War II, he was a member of St. Michael's Catholic Church; Old Rail
  Post 6025, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Mount Savage, Maryland; Farrady Post
  24, American Legion; Fraternal  Order of Eagles Aerie 1273; and the Laurel
  Falls Association, a sportsmen's club in  Meyersdale.
    Surviving besides his mother are his widow, Mrs. Nellie (Mull) Drees; 
  one daughter, Mrs. Colleen Brode, Finzel; two sons, Gary Drees, Frostburg;
  Gene Drees, at home; two brothers, Anthony Drees, Finzel; Larry Drees,
  Pocahontas; four sisters, Mrs. Anna Lynch and Mrs. Shirley Winner, both of
  Frostburg; Mrs. Margaret Baer, Pocahontas; Mrs. Mary Jane Burdock,
  Finzel; five grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.
    Friends were received at the Durst Funeral Home.
  
  The Republic, January 20, 1983
  
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