OBIT: Pearl D. (DIEHL) BRIDGES, 1978, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  PEARL D. BRIDGES
  
    Mrs. Pearl D. Bridges, 76, died Saturday, August 5, in Memorial
  Hospital, Cumberland.
    Born in Meyersdale, she was a daughter of the late Harry and Ellen
  (Miller) Diehl.  Her husband, Albert Bridges, died in July, 1977.
    Mrs. Bridges was a former employee of Fort Cumberland Hotel.
    She is survived by four sons, Paul A. Bridges, LaVale and Howard,
  Eugene and Floyd Bridges, all of Mount Savage; a daughter, Mrs.
  Blanche Burton, Baltimore; a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Bartgis, Mount
  Savage; 23 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
    Friends were received at the Sowers Funeral Home, Frostburg.
  
  The Republic, August 10, 1978
  
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