OBIT: Amanda Elizabeth (BITTNER) KENDALL, 1942, Garrett, Somerset County, PA

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AMANDA KENDALL

  Mrs. Amanda Elizabeth (Bittner) Kendall, 69, died on Thursday, May 28, at her 
home near Garrett, following a brief illness.  She was a daughter of Jeremiah 
and Elizabeth (Beal) Bittner.
  Surviving are her husband, John L. Kendall, and the following children: Mrs. 
Walter Saylor, Sand Patch, Wittenberg; Mrs. Clyde Ickes, Berlin R.D.; Mrs. 
Phillip Hay, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. George Horning, Mrs. John Robertson, and Mrs. 
Raymond Mankamyer, all of Berlin R.D.; Mrs. Charles Mitchell and Mrs. John 
Keller, both of Garrett R.D., and John Kendall of Garrett.  Also surviving are a 
brother, Frank Bittner, Sand Patch; and two sisters, Mrs. George W. Tressler and 
Mrs. Simon Brown, both of Sand Patch R.D.  Three children preceded her in death, 
one of them the late Harvey Kendall, a well known and gallant veteran of World 
War No. 1.
  Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon in the St. John's 
Evangelical Church at White Oak.  Interment in White Oak Cemetery.
  Mrs. Kendall and her husband were for many years prominent residents of 
Larimer Township, where she and her children were born.  She was a devoted wife 
and mother, and sincere christian.
  Her bereaved husband is well known both as "Squire" Kendall (former Justice of 
the Peace in Larimer Twp.) and "Rev." John L. Kendall.  He began preaching as a 
boy minister and evangelist at the age of 15 years, achieved local fame as "the 
boy preacher" in three states - Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia, and 
has also devoted his latter years to ministerial work.

Meyersdale Republican, June 4, 1942