OBIT: Minerva Jane (BITTNER) WALKER WALKER, 1942, Berlin R.D., Somerset County, 
PA

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MINERVA J. WALKER

  Mrs. Minerva Jane Walker, 76, died Tuesday morning, March 31, at the home of 
her daughter, Mrs. Jacob E. Suder of Berlin R.D. 1, where she had resided for 
the past four years.  She was a former resident of Arrtanna, and was a daughter 
of Benjamin G. and Sarah (Poorbaugh) Bittner.  She was born near Garrett.
  Mrs. Walker was twice married.  Her first husband, Edward McDowell Walker, 
died 46 years ago and her second husband, Bernard I. Walker, died in 1918.
  Surviving are two children, Mrs. Suder, mentioned above, and Dr. Robert B. 
Walker, Brunswick, N.J.  She also leaves a brother, Charles Bittner, Syracuse, 
New York, and four grandchildren.  A son, Dr. Homer B. Walker, of Cumberland, 
Md., died in 1933.  Mrs. Walker was a member of the Flohrs Lutheran Church at 
Cashtown.
  Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 Thursday afternoon in the Fritz 
Lutheran Church, Garrett, R.D.  Interment in the church cemetery under the 
direction of Johnson and Son, Berlin morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, April 2, 1942