OBIT: Elton H. HICKMAN, 1987, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  ELTON H. HICKMAN
  
  Elton H. Hickman, 90, died June 16, 1987, at the Methodist Nursing Home,
  Mt. Lebanon.  He was born in McKeesport, Oct. 31, 1896.  Survived by his
  wife, Verna (Sechler); foster children, Ken Martin of Library, Pa.; Daniel
  Gordon of Bethel Park; Thomas, and Robert Gordon of Ontario, Calif.; 11
  grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.  He taught English for 42 1/2
  years in the Pittsburgh and Dunbar Township school districts.  Since
  retiring, he owned and operated Hickman Gardens, a Bethel Park nursery and
  landscaping business, and was a member of the Pennsylvania Nurseyman's
  Association.  He was past president of the Men's Garden Club, an
  exposition, awards and honors judge of the National Daylily Society, a Boy
  Scout leader in Irwin, Knoxville and Bethel Park, a member of Epworth
  Methodist Church, McKeesport, an elder at Bethel Presbyterian Church and a
  member of the Outreach Commission.  Friends will be received today and
  Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 p.m. at Harold E. Connell and Son Funeral Home, 5120
  West Library Ave., Bethel Park.  Services will be held at the Bethel
  Presbyterian Church Friday at 11 a.m.  Interment, Somerset County Memorial
  Park on Saturday at 11 a.m.  Contributions may be sent to the International
  Heifer Project, P.O. Box 808, Little Rock, Ark. 72203.
  
  Somerset Daily American, June 17, 1987
  
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