OBIT: Rev. Howard K. HILNER, 1974, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  REV. HOWARD K. HILNER
  
    The Rev. Howard K. Hilner, 77, of 2206 E. King's Highway, Coatesville, a
  former pastor of Zion Ev. Lutheran Church, Meyersdale, died recently of a
  heart attack at his home.
    Born in Danville, he was a son of the late Alfred C. and Hannah Kauffman
  Hilner.  He had resided in the Coatesville area since leaving Meyersdale in
  1951.
    Rev. Hilner served as Protestant Chaplain at the Coatesville Veterans
  Administration Hospital from 1951 until 1967, when he retired.
    He also had previously served pastorates in New Cumberland and
  Watsontown.  During WW II he served as Protestant chaplain at Camp Grant,
  Rockford, Ill., and was chaplain on the Alcan Highway.  After World War II,
  he continued his pastorate in Meyersdale until going to Coatesville.
    A graduate of Gettysburg College and Gettysburg Seminary, he was a member
  of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Coatesville; the Central
  Pennsylvania Synod, the Coatesville Area Clergy Association and of the
  Masonic Order in Meyersdale.
    In 1964 he was admitted to the Legion of Honor of the Chapel of Four
  Chaplains, Philadelphia.
    Surviving are his second wife, Catherine Coates Hilner; two daughters,
  Dorothea, wife of F. Frederick Breuninger, Coatesville and Patricia, wife
  of Clarke H. Bigler, Trumbull, Conn.; and a son, Howard K. Jr. of
  Pittsburgh; also ten grandchildren.
  (appears to be missing a column)
  
  Meyersdale Republic, December 12, 1974
  
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