OBIT: Charles H. LANDIS, 1985, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
    
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    LANDIS
    
    Charles H. Landis, 64, West Garrett Street, Somerset, died Nov. 30,
  1985, in Somerset Community Hospital.  Born Sept. 6, 1921, in
  Meyersdale, son of Samuel and Pauline Landis.  Preceded in death by
  father.  Survived by mother, Akron, Ohio; wife of 42 years, former
  Berna Deane Nicholson; and two children: Mrs. Jeffrey (Ella) Lynch,
  Greensburg; and Charles C., Longview, Texas; also three
  grandchildren: Michael, Jessica and Patrick Lynch; also close friend,
  Raymond Spencer, Longview, Texas; sister, Mrs. Charles (Martha)
  Speelman, Akron, Ohio; and George, Chicago, Ill.  Member of First
  United Methodist Church, Somerset.  Employed by Picadio Beer
  Distributing, Somerset.  Life member of: Somerset Volunteer Fire
  Department; Post 554 VFW, Somerset; and Disabled American War
  Veterans, Meyersdale.  Member of FOE Post 180, Military Order of
  Cooties and Post 181 American Legion, Somerset.  U.S. Army veteran
  Company C, 110th Infantry, World War II, where he received Purple
  Heart for wounds received in action.  Friends will be received 2-4
  and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at Wilbur D. Miller Funeral Home, where service
  will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, the Rev. Percy Ellenberger
  officiating.  Interment, Somerset County Memorial Park.
    
    Daily American, December 2, 1985
    
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