OBIT: Douglas W. SMITH, 1993, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  SMITH
  
    Douglas W. Smith, 71, of 607 Fairview Ave., Gettysburg, died
  Saturday, Jan. 23, 1993, at his home.  Husband of Sara Shaffer
  Smith.  Born in Martinsburg, the son of the late Elvin and Mary
  Ritchey Smith.  Member of St. James Lutheran Church and church
  council; past Sunday School superintendent.  Former member of board
  of Gettysburg Area School District.  One of first members of
  Gettysburg Recreation Park board of directors.  Member and past
  president of Masonic Lodge 358, Somerset; Harrisburg Consistory and
  Scottish Rite Lodge.  In 1940, he started work at Adams Electric
  Cooperative and was employed for 20 years.  In 1960, he moved to
  Somerset and became manager of Somerset Rural Electric Cooperative. 
  He served as director of Somerset Trust Bank and the Rotary Club. 
  Chosen as Man of the Year by Somerset Grange.  Moved to Huntingdon in
  1968 and was employed as a manager of the Valley Rural Electric
  Cooperative.  Member of the National Rural Electric Association board
  for 17 years, the Huntingdon Rotary Club and served on the Huntingdon
  Hospital Authority board.  Retired in 1990 in Huntingdon and then
  moved back to Gettysburg.  Survived by four children: Sally A. Crist
  and Janet S. Berkey, both of Gettysburg; Kay Little of Orlando, Fla.,
  and Jay D. Smith of Huntingdon; nine grandchildren, one sister, Margie
  Spotts of New Holland, and one brother, Eugene Smith of Leottardtown,
  Md.  Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. James
  Lutheran Church, Gettysburg, with the Rev. E. Edward Keyser
  officiating.  Interment in the Evergreen Cemetery.  Family will
  receive friends at the Monahan Funeral Home, Gettysburg, from 7 to 9
  p.m. Tuesday.  Memorial contributions may be sent to St. James
  Lutheran Church, York Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325 and Gettysburg
  Hospital, Gettys Street, Gettysburg.
  
  Daily American, January 25, 1993
  
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