Bucks-Cumberland-Franklin County PA Archives Obituaries.....SCHWENK, Jr, Charles F. January 13, 1980 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Thera Schwenk-Hammond tsh@harborside.com March 31, 2008, 5:44 pm News-Chronicle, Shippensburg, PA, Jan 1980 Obituary: Charles F. Schwenk, Jr, 86, of 626 Glenn St, died Saturday morning, Jan. 13, 1980, in Swaim Health Center, Newville. Born 1 May 1903 in Perkasie, Bucks Co, he was the son of the late Charles F. Sr and Annie Moyer Schwenk. He was a graduate of Perkasie High School and Taylor School of Business, Philadelphia. In 1937, he moved to Shippensburg to manage the former Pant Pants Co, which later became Marden Clothing co, retiring in June 1968. From 1968 to 1984, he was executive director of Shippensburg Area Chamber of Commerce and Shippensburg Area Development Corporation. Mr. Schwenk was a member of Grace United Church of Christ, where he was a former Sunday school teacher. He was past president of the church's consistory and was elder emeritus. He also was a member of Cumberland Valley Lodge 315, Free and Accepted Masons; Harrisburg Consistory, AASR; George Washington Royal Arch Chapter 176; Continental Commandery 56; National division of the American Association of Retired Persons and AARP Shippensburg Chapter 2525. He was past president of Shippensburg Lions Club; life member of Shippensburg Fish and Game Association; and was a former member of the board of directors of Cumberland County Tourist Council and Cumberland County Industrial Enterprises, both in Carlisle. Surviving are his wife, Rose E. Stout Schwenk; two sons, Richard C. of Lansdale and Charles E. of Shippensburg; a daughter, Joanne S. (Mrs. Paul H.) Karper of Shippensburg; nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He was the last of his family. Service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Grace United Church of Christ. The Refs. Ernest N. Rumbaugh Jr. and Albert C. Robinson will officiate. Burial will be in Parklawns Memorial Gardens, Chambersburg. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home, Inc., 112 W. King St, where a Masonic service will be conducted at 8:30 by Cumberland Valley Lodge 315, F&AM. Visitation also will be one hour prior to the service in the church. Memorial contributions may be made to the memorial fund of Grace United Church of Christ, 121 E. Orange St, Shippensburg 17257. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb