OBIT: Eleanor L. (YOUNKIN) RICHTER, 2001, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  RICHTER
  
  Eleanor L. Richter, 85, formerly of Maple Grove Road, Grantsville,
  Md., died Aug. 13, 2001 at Meyersdale Manor Nursing Home, Meyersdale.
  Born Aug. 14, 1915 in Grantsville, she was a daughter of the late
  George A. and Susan (Beckett) Younkin.  She was preceded in death by
  her husband, Carl H. Richter, Dec. 30, 1977; an infant daughter,
  Shelby Jean, in 1940; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two
  brothers, Floyd and Willis Younkin, and two sisters, Hazel Livingstone
  and Nina Patterson.  She is survived by two sons, William G. Richter
  and Betty and Carl Michael Richter, both of Meyersdale; four
  daughters, Elaine Tressler and husband, Clyde, Salisbury; Yvonne
  Collier and husband, Wayne, Accident, Md.; LaDonna Hare and husband,
  Everett, Grantsville; E. Susan Reebel and husband, William Orlando,
  Fla.; 18 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and a
  great-great-grandson.  Mrs. Richter was a member of Christ Lutheran
  Church, Grantsville, the AARP and was a homemaker.  Friends will be
  received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Newman Funeral
  Homes, P.A., 179 Miller St., Grantsville, Md. where service will be
  conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday with Rev. David E. Fetter and the Rev.
  Ivan J. Maust officiating.  Interment will be in Grantsville Cemetery.
  Pallbearers will be Mrs. Ricter's [sic] seven grandsons, David Tressler,
  Robert Collier, James Hare, Ronald Richter, Eric Richter, Jeremy
  Richter and Roy Wilhelm Jr.  Expressions of sympathy may be directed
  to "In Touch" Hospice, 1590 N. Center Ave., Somerset, Pa. 15501.
  
  Daily American, August 15, 2001
  
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