OBIT: Henry Lorenzo SPIKER, 1989, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  HENRY L. SPIKER
  
    Henry Lorenzo Spiker, 83, Railroad Street, died Friday, July 21,
  1989, at Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, Md.
    He had been a resident of the Frostburg Village Nursing Home, Md.
    Born Dec. 10, 1905, in Klondike, he was the son of the late William
  Henry and W. Charlotte (Poland) Spiker.
    He was a retired coal miner and retired from Kelly-Springfield Tire
  Company with 20 years of service.  He was a member of the St. Joseph's
  Catholic Church, the Holy Name Society, Midland Sportsmen Club and
  Senior Citizens of Lonaconing, Md.
    Surviving are his widow Blanche Gertrude (McKenzie) Spiker; two
  sons, Henry S. Spiker and Joseph P. Spiker, both of Midland, Md.; two
  daughters, Mrs. Eileen C. Oster, Salisbury; and Rose Marie McAlpine,
  Knapps Meadow; two brothers, Everett Spiker, Lonaconing, Md.; and
  Charles Spiker, Frostburg, Md.; one sister, Nancy Ritchie, Richmond,
  Va.; 19 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.
    Friends were received at the Eichhorn-McKenzie Funeral Home,
  Lonaconing, Md.
    Mass of Christian burial was celebrated Monday at 9:30 a.m. at St.
  Joseph's Catholic Church by Father William Dalton.  Interment, Sunset
  Memorial Park, Cumberland, Md.
  
  The Republic, July 27, 1989
  
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