JEROME E. GITSCHIER, 58
WELLSVILLE -- Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Roberts Funeral Home, Wellsville, for Jerome E. Gitschier, 58, of Cloister Drive, Surfside Beach, S.C., formerly of Wellsville, who died Monday morning in Grand Strand Regional Medical Center, Myrtle Beach, S.C., of leukemia.
Mr. Gitschier, known as "Jerry," was born Sept. 1, 1942, in East Liverpool, a son of Jerome W. and Virginia French Gitschier, and moved to the Myrtle Beach area seven years ago.
He retired as parts supplier at General Motors in Lordstown and was a 1961 Wellsville High graduate. He was a board member of the South Bay Lakes Condominium Association and a member of the Masonic lodge of Salem and United Autoworkers Local 1112 in Lordstown.
Besides his father of Wellsville, he leaves two daughters, Jennifer Brown and Kim Gitschier, both of Salem; a sister, Karen Dash of Wellsville; and two grandsons.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
3/13/01