OBIT: W. Meryl WIESTER Jr., 1996, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  W. MERYL WIESTER JR.
  
    W. Meryl Wiester Jr., 70, of Apollo, Bell Township, Westmoreland
  County, died Sunday, March 31, 1996 at his home.  Born Sept. 3, 1925
  in Kiskiminetas Township, Armstrong County.  A son of the late W.
  Meryl and Bernice Jane Louise (nee George) Wiester Sr.  Prior to his
  retirement, he was employed as a truck driver and school bus
  driver.  He was a member of the Poke Run Presbyterian Church in
  Washington Township; The F.&A.M. Williamson Lodge #431 in Saltsburg;
  the Mounted Patrol Division of the Jaffa Shrine in Altoona, and the
  Harrisburg Consistory.  He was a U.S. Navy veteran of WW II.  In
  addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a son, James
  Meryl Wiester in 1982.  He is survived by his wife, Grace A. Kirch
  Wiester, with whom he celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on
  Saturday, March 30; three children: Barbara Lynn Darr and her husband
  Barry and Bonnie A. Ray and her husband James, all of Somerset, and
  Garry King Wiester and his wife Jayne of Apollo, Bell Township; one
  sister, Shirley A. Mahan of Saxonburg; two brothers: L. Terry Wiester
  and his wife Bernice of Weedville, and R. Neale Wiester and his wife
  June of Avonmore RD 1, Bell Township; nine grandchildren and two
  great-grandchildren.  Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9
  p.m. Tuesday at the John L. Bash Funeral Home, 152 Abbe Place,
  Delmont, Westmoreland County.  A Masonic service will be conducted in
  the funeral home at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.  Additional viewing will be
  held from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Wednesday at the Poke Run Presbyterian
  Church where funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. with his pastor,
  the Rev. Wayne C. Blaser officiating.  A graveside service and
  interment will follow in Poke Run Cemetery.
  
  Somerset Daily American, April 1, 1996
  
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