The Virginian-Pilot
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DATE: Sunday, April 23, 1995                 TAG: 9504230266
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: OAKMONT, PA.                       LENGTH: Short :   28 lines

MARGARET REICHARD

Margaret Reichard, 87, died April 21, 1995, in Oakmont, Pa.

She had run the food brokerage of her late husband, Harry G. Reichard. She was a member of Royster Memorial Presbyterian Church, an elder of the church, a member of the Kings Daughters, and was an artist, sculpturer and a painter in the Norfolk area. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Survivors include a daughter, Margaret Meister of Oakmont, Pa.; three grandchildren, Megan M. Fahrenbach and Paul M. Meister, both of State College, Pa., Todd C. Meister of Portland, Ore.; and four great-grandchildren. Mrs. Reichard was preceded in death by her husband, Harry G. Reichard, her parents, Charles Henry and Anna Gerdes Poerstel, a brother Norman G. Poerstel and a sister, Ethel P. McCrea.

A funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Tidewater Drive Chapel, by the Rev. Dr. Bill Wilson. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. The family will be at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB