OBIT: L. Dewey TINKEY, 1974, native of Scullton, Somerset County, PA
  
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  TINKEY
  
  L. Dewey Tinkey. 74, of Dilliner, Pa., West Point Marion, died Thursday,
  October 10, 1974, at his home.  He was born February 11, 1900 in Scullton,
  Pa., and was the son of the late Samuel H. and Ida Pyle Tinkey.  Member of
  the Faith Church of the Nazarene, Greensboro, Pa. and a former member of
  Silver Creek Lodge 315 IOOF, Crandon, Va.  Retired coal miner, a member UMWA
  local union 6310.  Survived by wife Stella Crawford Tinkey.  A son Richard C.
  of McKeesport.  Four daughters: Mrs. Wilmarine Conway and Mrs. Winifred
  Dillow, both of Point Marion; Mrs. Rose Marie Winkelvoss and Mrs. Donna
  Sumpter both of Sterling Park. Va. Eleven grandchildren, 3
  great-grandchildren.  Three brothers: Floyd and Woodrow both of Somerset and
  Ralph Tinkey, Rockwood.  Four sisters: Mrs. Sadie Locke and Mrs. Jean Baird
  both of Akron, Ohio: Mrs. Bertha Durst, Somerset; Mrs. Virginia Crooks,
  Poland, Ohio.  He was preceded in death by two sons, Roy S. Tinkey, March
  1970, and Willie James in infancy.  The family is receiving friends in the
  Richard R. Herod Funeral Horne, Point Marion until noon Sunday.  The body
  will be removed to the Faith Church of the Nazarene, Greensboro, Pa. where
  funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m.  Interment, Wolf's Cemetery.
  
  Somerset American, October 12, 1974
  
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