OBIT: Bertha E. (CRISSINGER) CASHMAN SIMS, 1981, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  BERTHA E. CASHMAN SIMS
  
    Bertha E. Cashman Sims, died Feb. 16, 1981, at the Gadsden Baptist
  Hospital, Gadsden, Ala. 
    She was born Oct. 24, 1919, in Meyersdale, the daughter of the late
  Henry Crissinger and wife Anna Logson.  She was preceded in death by
  two husbands, Jerry Cashman, and Earl Sims.  She is survived by three
  sons, Jerry, of Jacksonville, Fla.; Paul, Atlanta, Georgia; John, of
  Gadsden; and a daughter Theresa, of Atlanta.  Also survived by eight
  grandchildren and eight sisters, Mary Faidley, Greensburg; Rita
  Brenneman, Irene Zakucia, Betty Gross, Julia Miller, all of
  Meyersdale. Etta Leurs, of Gap; Phylis Cunningham, Baltimore, Md.;
  Carol Duppstadt, Florida; and two brothers, Henry L. Crissinger,
  Meyersdale; and Harvey Crissinger, Erin, Tenn.
    Friends were received at Colliers & Butler Funeral Home, Gadsden,
  where services were conducted by the Rev. Hall, on Feb. 17.
    Interment, Gadsden Cemetery.
    The family requests contributions be made to the Cancer Society or
  Diabetes Association in lieu of flowers.
  
  The Republic, February 26, 1981
  
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