Obituary: David J. Honsaker

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HONSAKER, David J.,  Age 69 years of 5 Park Ave., 
Masontown, died Monday, July
15, 1974 in the Uniontown Hospital. He was born January 23, 
1905 in Masontown the
son of the late Johnson and Gertrude Miller Honsaker. He was 
a retired funeral director
having served in the community of Masontown for thirty four 
years as owner and director
of the Honsaker Funeral Home. He was a member of the 
Masontown United Methodist
Church, a life member, past president and honorary chief 
of the Masontown Volunteer
Fire Dept., member and past president of the Masontown Rotary 
Club, Past District
Governor of the Rotary International District 733, member of 
the Masontown Valley
Lodge No. 459 F & A M, Uniontown Lodge of Perfection, 32nd 
Degree Mason, Valley of
Pittsburgh, Syria Temple of Pittsburgh, Caravan No. 9, Tall 
Cedars of Lebanon, Forrest
N. 152 of Uniontown, member and Past Master of the German 
Grange No. 785 and also
the Pomono State and National Grange. He was preceded in death 
by his wife, Etta
Brooks Honsaker on November, 1973; two sisters, MaDora Eslinger 
and Mabel Snell and
a brother, Howard. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Thomas (Joanne) 
Dills of Churville,
Pa.; three grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. C. W. (Jeannette) 
Ehni of Lombard, Ill., Mrs.
Thomas (Gertrude) Kennedy of Carmichaels and Mrs. Walter (Kay) 
Goodman of W.
Palm Beach, Fla. Friends will be received in the Grant R. 
Townsend Funeral Home,
Masontown on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 10 p.m. and until 
Thursday at 11 a.m. the
hour of service. Rev. Thomas Crenney will officiate. Interment 
in Greendale Cemetery.