OBIT: Blanche (MANKAMYER) FINZEL, 1985, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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    BLANCHE FINZEL
  
    Blanche (Mankamyer) Finzel, 86, died January 30, 1985 in Akron, Ohio.
    Born May 20, 1898 in Meyersdale, she was a daughter of the late Lewis and
  Eleanor (Bittner) Mankamyer.
    She is preceded in death by her husband, Nelson, and daughter Doretha
  Huff.  She is survived by three daughters, Joyce Simms, Fern Darr, both of
  Akron, Ohio; and Maxine Presson of Crossville, Tennessee; and a son, Jack
  Finzel, of Akron, Ohio.
    She is also survived by two sisters, Margaret Weimer, Meyersdale; and
  Pauline Smith, Westminster, Md.; and two brothers, Howard Mankamyer,
  Brimfield, Ohio; and Oscar Mankamyer, of Easton, Md.; fourteen 
  grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.
    She was an Akron resident for 65 years, a member of the United Methodist
  Church Loyal Daughters Class and AARP.
    Friends were received at the Schlup Funeral Chapel in Kenmore, Ohio,
  where services were held Saturday, February 2, at noon.  The Rev. John
  Beaty officiated with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Akron, Ohio.
  
  The Republic,  February 14, 1985 
  
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