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- Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 3/7/1966
A former Pendleton man.
whose dying wish was granted
through the efforts of strangers,
died Saturday (March 5,
1966) at the County General
Hospital. Milwaukee, Wis.
Donald Francis Bitterman. 33,
of 778 North Cass St., Milwaukee,
found himself alone
and ill in a strange city, last
September. As he grew progressively
worse, he confided in
friends a wish to see his relatives
In the Lockport a r e a ,
with whom he had tost contact.
Telephone operators with the
Milwaukee and other telephone
companies, located his relatives
in the area and Mr. Bitterman
had been visited regularly since
last fall when his prognosis was
given as negative by doctors.
He was bom in Lockport,
March 16, 1933, the son of Arthur
Edward and Catherine Bauer
Bitterman. He attended area
schools until he moved to Buffalo.
In 1952, he left the area,
leaving no forwarding address.
He is survived by his stepmother,
Mrs. Helen Chapman
of Lockport; four sisters and a
brother, Mrs. Earl (Geraldine)
Siefert of Williamsville; M r s .
Fred (Shirley) Smith of Ceektowaga;
Mrs. Irving (Helene)
Lennert of Lockport; Mrs. Robert
(Fredda) Palia of Newfane;
Arthur Joseph Bitterman,
serving with the Armed Forces
stationed in Alaska; and several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral arrangements at
presstime were incomplete. Mr.
Bitterman will be buried from
a Williamsville funeral home
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