OBIT: Bishop Hermann W. KAEBNICK, 1987, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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  KAEBNICK
  
  Bishop Hermann W. Kaebnick, 89, 65 Woodbine Drive, Hershey, Pa., died May
  25, 1987, in Hershey.  He was a retired bishop of the Northeastern
  Jurisdictional Conference of the United Methodist Church, serving the
  Harrisburg area.  Previous to July of 1972, he served 47 years as a pastor,
  a district superintendent, executive secretary and bishop of the former
  Evangelical United Brethren Church, later the United Methodist Church.  He
  was the widower of Gertrude Strehler Kaebnick and a Navy veteran of World
  War I.  He attended the First United Methodist Church, Hershey, and was a
  member of the United Methodist Men, a 33rd Degree Mason, was a member of
  the Miami Lodge No. 660 F&AM, Dayton, Ohio, and the Harrisburg
  Consistory.  Surviving by: son Dr. Warren W. Kaebnick of Troy, Ohio;
  daughter Winifred L. Kaebnick of Hershey; three grandsons and two
  great-grandsons.  A memorial service will be held Sunday, June 7 at 2 p.m.
  in the First United Methodist Church, Hershey.  Interment, Dayton Memorial
  Park and Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.  There will be no viewing.  Memorial
  contributions may be made to the Preacher's Aid Society, the Board of
  Mission, or the Lewisburg United Methodist Homes, in care of Central Pa.
  Conference, Room 119, 900 South Arlington Ave., Harrisburg, Pa. 17109. 
  Arrangements in charge of Hoover Funeral Home, Hershey.
  
  Daily American, May 28, 1987
  
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