OBIT: Malinda (BITTNER) GEIGER, 1941, native of Somerset County, PA

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MALINDA GEIGER

  Mrs. Malinda Geiger, aged 86 years, 10 months and 4 days, died at the home of 
her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Petenbrink in Sand Patch, R.D., on Wednesday, 
September 17, 1941.  Mrs. Geiger, born on November 13, 1854, was the daughter of 
William and Lavina (Cook) Bittner, both of whom were born in Somerset County.  
Mrs. Geiger was one of the early settlers in this vicinity.
  Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Susan Steinla of Avilton, Md.; Mrs. E. F. 
Petenbrink and Mrs. Louis Geiger of Scottdale; Mrs. John Merschbaker of Canton, 
Ohio, and Mrs. Harvey Petenbrink of Sand Patch; one son, William, of Moltrie, 
Ohio; twenty-one grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.  Her husband, Jacob 
Geiger, died in May 1941.  Two sons also preceded her in death.
  Funeral services will be held on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the 
White Oak Lutheran Church.  Rev. S. D. Sigler, pastor of the church, will 
officiate.  Interment will be made in the church cemetery under the direction of 
W. C. Price and Son, local morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, September 18, 1941