OBIT: Ira T. GILPIN, 1981, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  IRA T. GILPIN
    Ira T. Gilpin, 70, of RD 2 Grantsville, Md.; died May 8, 1981 in Memorial
  Hospital, Cumberland, Md.
    Born in Fairview, Md., he was a son of the late Mary Bittinger.  His
  wife, Clesta (Meyers) Gilpin, preceded him in death.
    He was a member of the Casselman Sportsmen's Club; a retired coal miner
  and a retired school bus driver in Garrett County.
    He is survived by eight sons, Julius, David, Roger and Kenneth Gilpin,
  all of Grantsville; Ray Gilpin, Canton, Ohio; Grady Gilpin, Akron; Clinton
  Gilpin, of Windham, Ohio and Richard Gilpin of Girard, Ohio; three
  daughters, Mrs. Wanita Wilt, of Grantsville; Mrs. Lois Sweitzer, Girard,
  Ohio; Mrs. Maxine O'Brian, Swanton, Md., four half-brothers, Clark
  Bittinger, Oakland, Md.; Marshall Bittinger, McHenry Md.; McKinley
  Bittinger, Crellin and Vernon Bittinger of West Virginia; two half-sisters,
  Mrs. Beulah Cutter, Klondike; Mrs. Olive Glotfelty, McHenry; 24
  grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
    Friends were received in the Newman Funeral Home Grantsville where
  services were conducted by the Rev. Roger Bucy.  Interment will be in
  Trinity United Church of Christ Cemetery, New Germany.
  
  The Republic, May 14, 1981
  
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