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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1968
Page
2
Death notices and funeral details for Emma Everson Babb Teresa Marguerite Cummings Joseph A Crist and James H Sloan include services in Media West Chester Ridley Park and Collingdale. Dates June 21 to 23 1968 plus burial plans and calling hours announced by local funeral homes.
Multiple death notices list June 1968 funerals for Sara Hazlett Edith Kleppinger Louis Lee Carl Leidecker Oscar McFall Amalie Meyer and others. Services set at local chapels in Media Ridley Park Norwood and Springfield with interments at Arlington Cemetery Greenlawn and Forest Hills. Relatives and friends invited. calling hours vary.
Esther A. Schriver 84 widow of Leonard E. Schriver died Saturday at Fair Acres Home Middletown. She lived at 2435 Helms Manor Ave Upper Chichester and was a member of Chester Baptist Temple. Survived by sons Stewart in California and Raymond in Marcus Hook and daughters Sue Snook Chester Sarah Connors Nether Providence Gertrude Willis Upper Chichester, 22 grandchildren nine great grandchildren. Services Tuesday Griffith Chapel Norwood burial Mt Zion Cemetery Gowlingdale. Calling hours 7 to 9 tonight.
Obituaries list memorial notices for Paul Parchmovitch and several neighbors with funeral details. Names include Josephine Rogers, Esther Schriver, Charles Jr. Scott, James H. Sloan, Margaret N Swinick, Edith A States, Annie Stein, and Edna Terry with service times, churchs, cemeteries, and cremation notes where given. Families encouraged to call or attend as specified.
Obituaries note the death of Amalie Meyer age 85 of Folcroft widow of Jacob Meyer born in Germany who lived in Delaware County many years and leaves two sons and four daughters. Carl P. Leidecker 87 of Springfield a former football trainer dies. services at Kovacs Funeral Home. Edna May Terry 76 of Aston dies. services and burial private. Emma Babb Carr 89 formerly of Middletown dies in Miami. survived by husband Ralph Carr and multiple grandchildren. services at Patterson Funeral Home.
An informal poll in Georgia shows George Wallace as the preferred presidential candidate among attendees at a Chester area and Havertown funeral notices. The survey gathered volunteers wearing campaign buttons, revealing Wallace leading Maddox comments on local sentiment in Atlanta.
Nor Edward Dodd 88 former UN FAO director general honored by National Farmers Union for 1954 service. James M Langley 73 ex ambassador to Pakistan and Concord Monitor editor died. Motoharu Baba 65 senior LDP figure from Tokyo died. Johnny Beckman 75 Hall of Fame basketball pioneer from original New York Celtics died. Robert F Jones 60 ex Ohio congressman and FCC member, died in Sandy Spring Maryland.
Fire swept a 5 and 10 cent store at Crest Plaza Shopping Center west of Allentown. Four other shops were damaged by smoke as the blaze apparently started in the restaurant area of the W. T. Grant store and spread rapidly. Firemen from four communities battled for about an hour to gain control.
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