OBIT: Oscar Leonard MANKAMYER, 1998, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  OSCAR L. MANKAMYER
  
    Oscar Leonard Mankamyer, 86, formerly of Easton, Md., died Friday,
  April 3, 1998, at the Central Park Health Center, Orlando, Fla.
    Born Nov. 21, 1911, in Somerset County, he was a son of the late
  Lewis M. and Elenora (Bittner) Mankamyer.
    After attending public school in Larimer Township, Mr. Mankamyer
  worked on the family farm until 1936, when he moved to Talbot County,
  Md., and continued farming.  In 1943 he moved to Akron, Ohio, to work
  in a defense plant and returned to Talbot County in 1947.  He resumed
  farming and also worked as a carpenter and painter until retiring in
  1973.
    Mr. Mankamyer was a member and former deacon of the Easton Church
  of the Brethren, where he maintained his membership since moving to
  Orlando in 1986.
    He is preceded in death by his wife, the former Catherine Lucille
  Tipton, whom he married in April 1934.  She died in December 1962.
    Mr. Mankamyer is survived by three daughters and their husbands:
  Ila Jean and Samuel Stutsman of Snow Hill, Md.; Deanna Rae and Robert
  Good of Princess Anne, Md.; and Barbara Ann and Lester Medford Jr.,
  Preston, Md.; another daughter, Linda Lee Lewis, Salisbury, Md.; a
  son and daughter-in-law, Dale L. and Carol Mankamyer of Orlando; a
  sister, Pauline M. Smith of Sykesville, Md.; a brother, Howard
  Mankamyer, Kent, Ohio; 16 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.
    Services were held April 8 at the Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam
  Funeral Home, Easton, Md.  Interment, Fairview Church Cemetery,
  Cordova, Md.
    Memorial contributions may be made to the Easton Church of the
  Brethren, Stewart ant Harrison Streets, Easton, MD 21601.
  
  New Republic, May 7, 1998
  
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