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Bedford Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Bedford REC is an electric distribution cooperative serving nearly 9,000 members in three Southern Tier Pennsylvania counties (Bedford, Fulton, and Somerset). Incorporated June 3, 1939, electric service was first provided December 19, 1939.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Owen L. Miller, President & PREA Director
• C. Robert Koontz, Vice President & Allegheny Director
• Donald E. Hoenstine, Secretary
• Reuben R. Lafferty, Treasurer
• Earl W. Garland, Assistant Secretary
• Howard Atkinson, Assistant Treasurer
• Wayne M. Hillegass
• John R. Koontz
• Ned H. McDonald

 GENERAL MANAGER

       Brooks Shoemaker

STAFF

• James W. Wood III, Manager, Operations 
• Brent Kauffman, Manager, Finance and Accounting
• Barbara Duvall, Assistant to the General Manager & Manager, Human Resources
• James Clark, Manager, Consumer Services
• Wade Mellott, Information Technology Manager
• Mark Rowan, Engineering Technician

COUNTIES SERVED & CONSUMERS IN EACH