OBIT: Walter Leroy STARTZEL, Sr., 1987, of interest in Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Sally Statler Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ STARTZEL Walter Leroy Startzel Sr., 87, 51 West Center St., Elysburg, Pa., died June 21, 1987, at his residence. Born May 24, 1900, in Ralpho Twp., son of the late Ammon J. Startzel and Anna Goss Startzel. Survived by daughter, Mrs. Anna Wardrop of Reading, Pa.; son, the Rev. Walter L. Startzel Jr. of Stovertown Road; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; brother, Lloyd Startzel of Tharptown; two sisters, Mrs. Mae Campbell of Sunbury and Mrs. Hazel Anderson of Shamokin RD 2. Preceded in death by his first wife, Dorothy Leisenring, 1940; and his second wife, Marguerite Jane Edmunds, who died in 1983. Friends received 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at the Farrow Funeral Home in Shamokin. Service will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Elysburg. Interment, Blue Church Cemetery. Daily American, June 23, 1987 [S2825]