OBIT: Jack A. IRWIN, 1967, Portland, OR, from Somerset County, PA 
  
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  MR. IRWIN
  
  Jack A. Irwin, 44, Portland. [photo]
  He was a cubmaster, institutional representative for Rigler elementary school
  PTA, a member of Knights of Columbus and St. Charles Catholic Church. He was
  employed as a meat cutter.
  His mother and aunt, Miss Maude Herring, Meyersdale, and brother, James,
  attended the funeral on Thursday, April 20. Internment was made in
  Williamette national cemetery.
  Born Jan. 31, 1923, in Belltown (Pa.), he was a son of Mrs. Ruth Irwin,
  Meyersdale.
  Surviving are his mother; his wife, the former Patricia Bennington of
  Portland: three children, Michael, James and Julie Ann, all at home. He was
  a brother of James Irwin, Philadelphia: Kenneth and William, Meyersdale; and
  Mrs. Thelma Bittner, Meyersdale RD 4.
  A graduate of MAHS in 1941, he served in the ETO during World War II. He is a
  former employee of the A&P Store here, Kelly Springfield Tire Co., Cumberland;
  and served in the secret service in Puerto Rico, where he met his wife, and
  has lived in Portland for the past 18 years.
  An active boy scout leader, Irwin served as a director of the cub scout
  roundtable of the Lewis and Clark district and was an assistant district
  commissioner of the Columbia Pacific Council of boy scouts. He held the
  scouters' training award, scouters' key and the commissioners' arrowhead
  award.
  
  Meyersdale Republican, May 4, 1967