OBIT:  Miles Henry CARR, 1980, Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA

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CARR - Miles Henry Carr, 79, 201 N. Hackberry Drive, (Chambersburg, PA) 
formerly of Waynesboro, died at 9:40 am Dec. 2, 1980, in the Chambersburg 
Hospital.  He was in failing health for the past year and was critically ill 
and confined to the hospital since suffering a heart attack Nov. 10. Born in 
Graceson, Cumberland County, PA, Jan. 22, 1901, he was the son of the late J. 
Sherman and Mary E. Shockey Carr. As a young man he was employed by the C.G. 
& W. Railway Co. and the Waynesboro Electric Co.  He later farmed and was 
employed by Frick Co., Waynesboro.  Prior to his retirement in 1966 he was 
last employed in maintenance work at Mt. Vernon Terrace, Waynesboro, by the 
Franklin County Housing Authority. A Protestant by faith, Mr. Carr was a 
social member of the Greencastle American Legion. His wife, Mrs. Olie V. 
Doyle Carr, died in October 1965. He is survived by two daughters: Mrs. Dean 
(Katherine M.) Gift, Waynesboro; Mrs. Charles (Margie) Gunder, Jr., Mentzer 
Gap Road; five sons: Henry S. Carr (Naomi). R.R. 1, Greencastle; S. Leroy 
(Viola) Carr and Donald Carr, both of Marion; Claude T. Carr (Vera), 
Chambersburg; Harold W. Carr (Margaret), Gibsontown, Fla.; 37 grandchildren; 
41 great-grandchildren; a brother, W. Lloyd Carr (Ann), Springfield, Ohio; 
and a sister, Mrs. Robert (Ida) Newell, Fayetteville. The funeral will be 
held Friday at 2 pm in the Grove Funeral Home, Waynesboro, with the Rev. 
Sampson Myers officiating.  Burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery, 
Waynesboro. Friend may call at the funeral home Thursday from 7 to 9 pm.

Public Opinion, Chambersburg, PA, December 3, 1980