OBIT: I. H. CROUSE, 1941, Littlestown, Adams County, PA

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I. H. Crouse

Funeral services for I. H. Crouse, 74, retired building contractor and senior 
member of the contracting firm of I. H. Crouse and Sons of Littlestown, who died 
Thursday a week at his home in Littlestown, were held at 2 o'clock Saturday 
afternoon from the late home on East King street.  The Rev. Kenneth D. James, 
pastor of St. John's Luthern church, of which the deceased was a member, 
officiated.  Interment was made at Mt. Carmel cemetery in Littlestown.

Mr. Crouse was taken ill at Jacksonville, Florida, three weeks ago.  For the 
last several years he had been spending the winters in Florida.  A son and 
daughter who were called to his bedside accompanied him home, coming to 
Baltimore by train and returning to Littlestown in the Adams county ambulance 
last Saturday.  Death was due to complications and infirmities.

Mr. Crouse was a son of the late Emanuel and Rebecca Stavely Crouse.  He was 
engaged in the contracting business for forty years, retiring from active 
participation in the firm of I. H. Crouse and Sons, of which he was the senior 
member, ten years ago.

He contributed much of his time to civic affairs, serving as a member of the 
borough council for twenty years, and was president of that body for several 
terms.  At the time of his death he was associated with the Littlestown 
Development and Improvement company and the Littlestown Cabinet company, and was 
vice president of the board of directors of the Littonian Shoe company.

Fraternally he was affiliated with the P. O. S. of A. lodge of Littlestown and 
with Paul E. Lau Commandery of Hanover.

Mr. Crouse's wife, the former Soenora M. M. Leppo, preceded him in death twenty 
years ago.  Surviving are five children, Mrs. Thomas Staley, Cloy I. Crouse, 
Nevaeh A. Crouse, Mrs. Wilbur Mackley and Miss Marie H. Crouse, all of 
Littlestown; six grandchildren, two brothers, Samuel and Howard, Littlestown, 
and a sister, Mrs. Lizzie Kump, Harney.

Star and Sentinel, Gettysburg, March 22, 1941