OBIT: Omar ELKINS, 1983, Berlin, Somerset County, PA

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  OMAR ELKINS
  
    Omar Elkins, 79, 316 Cumberland St., Berlin, died Dec. 20, 1983, at
  Somerset Community Hospital.
    Born April 19, 1904, in Gilbert, WVa., son of Rush and Mary Ellen (White)
  Elkins. 
    He was preceded in death by parents and two brothers.  He is survived by
  wife, former Carrie Mundy; daughter, Mrs. Dale (Barbara) Jones, Richmond,
  Va.; two granddaughters and a great-granddaughter.
    He was a brother of: Mrs. Mildred Walls, Beckley, WVa.; Mrs. Charlotte
  Olson, Elizabethton, Tenn.; Dwight, Wharncliff, WVa.; Walter, Colcord,
  WVa.; and Malcolm, Beckley, WVa.  He atteneded Morris Harvey College and
  Marshall College; was school principal in WV in early years.  Came to PA as
  federal mine inspector before retiring in 1966.  He served briefly as Berlin
  mayor and Somerset County tax assessor.  He was a member of Trinity United
  Church of Christ, Berlin; Boone Lodge No. 162 F & AM, Whitesville, WVa.;
  Beni Kedem Shrine Temple, Charleston, WVa.; Hebron Royal Arch Chapter No.
  272, Meyersdale; and IOOF Lodge, Berlin.
    Friends were received at Johnson-Kuhlman Funeral Home, where services
  were held with the Rev. Carl W. Schwarm, officiating.  Interment, IOOF
  Cemetery.
  
  The Republic, Dec. 29, 1983
  
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