JAMES S. BITLER
cir 1853 - Feb. 4, 1926
cir 1853 - Feb. 4, 1926
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REV. J. S. BITLER
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Died at White Cross Hospital
Columbus- - Recently Spoke
in This City
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Rev. James S. Bitler, aged 73, pastor of Frist Methodist Episcopal church in Hamden, Ohio, and a former paster of Wesley chapel, now the Central M. E. church, Columbus, died in White Cross hospital at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, February 4, of heart disease, which developed recently following a minor operation upon his nose.
He is survived by his wife, thre sons and two daughters, Rev. Thomas Bitler, pastor of the Prospect Hills Congregational church, Somerville, Massachusetts: Fred and James Bitler, engaged in the restaurant business in New York; Mrs. Grace Phrellfall, widow of the late Rev. John Phrellfall of Paris, newspaper correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, and Mrs. Renwick Tallmann, Chicago.
Funeral services were held in the Westerville Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock Saturday and the body was placed in the mausoleum at Westerville.
Rev. Bitler made a talk recently before the Men's club of the Presbyterian church. Some thirty-five years ago he was an exhorter and evangelist and conducted a series of meetings at the Methodist church in this city.
Circleville Union-Herald - February 11, 1926
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