OBIT: Walter C. "Joker" STROAD, 1975, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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    Walter C. "Joker" Stroad, 74, of East Freedom, Pa., died Thursday
  evening, May 1, 1975, in the Bedford County Memorial Hospital.  Born
  May 25, 1900, in Kentucky.  Survived by five nieces and one nephew. 
  Mr. Stroad owned and operated a tavern in East Freedom for a number
  of years.  Member of the Riverton Lodge of the Free and Accepted
  Masons, Arkansas City, Arkansas, Nemesis Temple, Parkersburg, W. Va.,
  and the Scottich Rite, Wheeling, W. Va.  Friends will be received from
  7-9 p.m. Saturday in the Louis Geisel Funeral Home in Bedford where
  funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday with the Rev. Edgar Datesman
  officiating.  Burial in Somerset County Memorial Park Cemetery.
  
  Somerset American, May 3, 1975
  
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