OBIT: Ernest S. WALKER, 1973, Berlin, Somerset County, PA
  
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  WALKER
  
  Ernest S. Walker, 60, of Brubaker St., Berlin, died Jan. 9, 1973. 
  Friends received after 2 p.m. Thursday in the Johnson and Son Funeral
  Home where services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. with the Rev.
  Kenneth R. Blough and the Rev. Ralph E. Mills officiating.  Interment
  in Pike Cemetery, Brotherton.
  
  Daily American, 11 January 1973.
  
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       WALKER
    
  Ernest S. Walker, 60, Brubaker Street, Berlin, died
  Jan. 9, 1973.  Born March 6, 1912 in Berlin a son of the late
  Franklin M. and Emma (Schrock) Walker.  Also preceeded [sic] in death
  by a brother, W. Jay.  Survived by his wife, the former Mabel Deem. 
  These children:  Mrs. Shirley Mull, Denver, Ind.; Mrs. Florabelle
  Lichty, Naples, Fla.Ao Mrs. Emma Jean Dillinger, Spring City, Pa.;
  Kenneth, Youngstown, Ohio; Mrs. Judy Durst, Berlin; 11 grand
  children.  Brother of J. Orlo of Berlin and Leland F., RD 4,
  Berlin.  Member of the Brothersvalley Church of the Brethern [sic],
  Brotherton; the Meyersdale Loyal Order of Moose, and he operated the
  Ernest Walker Garage in Berlin.  He joined the Berlin Volunteer Fire
  Department in 1935, was elected chief in 1947, and Sept. 1972 he was
  honored for being fire chief for 25 years.  He was a trustee of the
  Somerset County Fire School, a member of the joint fire prevention
  committee and the ways and means committee of the Somerset County
  Fire Association.  He was a member of the Somerset County FiremenAos
  Relief Association; a member of the four-county joint law and
  legislation committee, which includes Somerset, Bedford, Blair and
  Cambria counties.  He was the most active member of the $2000
  Somerset County Fire Association drawing.  A member of the committee
  for the erection of the Berlin Community Building, a member of the
  committee for the purchase of the communityAos last two new fire
  trucks.  He always participated in the Memorial Day parades,
  representing the fire department, he was a state fire marshall and a
  state fire warden for over 25 years.  Friends will be received after
  2 p.m. Thursday in the Johnson and Son Funeral Home, Berlin.  Other
  arrangements are incomplete.  The Berlin Volunteer Fire Department
  will hold memorial services in the funeral home Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

  Daily American, 10 January 1973