Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Gesford, Meriet E. Jr.,     June 19, 2008
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  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 6/22/2008
  Gesford Jr., Meriet E.    
   
   
  Meriet E. Gesford Jr., 83, of Union Deposit, passed away Thursday, June 19, 
  2008, in the Hershey Medical Center. Born in Grantville on July 29, 1924, he 
  was the son of the late Meriet E., Sr. and Mary Chris Lingle Gesford. Meriet 
  retired after 34 years as a truck mechanic from International Harvester where 
  he had worked from January 1952 to July 1986; prior to this he had worked as an 
  airplane mechanic at the former Olmsted Air Force Base and as a bus repairman 
  for the former Hershey Coach Bus Company. Meriet served with the Army Air Force 
  during World War II, where he was a mechanic and training instructor on B-17 & 
  B29 Bombers. Meriet was proud to be one of the instructors on the Enola Gay. He 
  was a member of St. Joan of Arc Roman Catholic Church, Hershey. Meriet was a 
  life member of the Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge 410, Middletown. He was a 
  Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus, Lebanon, and a member of American 
  Legion Post 265, Hummelstown. Meriet was preceded in death by his wife, Celia 
  A. Brajokovich Gesford, on February 5, 1998; a daughter, Vickie B. Cooper; a 
  sister, Janet Gesford and a brother, William Gesford. He is survived by two 
  sons, Michael A. Pankake of Harrisburg and Meriet E. "Junior" Gesford, III, at 
  home; one daughter, Janet Bixler of Shamokin; two sisters, Jean Shade of 
  Myerstown and JoAnn Hohenstein of Lancaster; two brothers, Earl Gesford of Sand 
  Beach and Charles Gesford of Hershey; and 6 grandchildren. Prayer services will 
  be held Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 11 AM in the Trefz & Bowser Funeral Home, 
  Inc., 114 West Main Street, Hummelstown, with The Rev. Fr. Joshua R. Brommer, 
  officiating. Interment will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Lower Paxton 
  Township. Friends are invited to call for a viewing at the funeral home 
  Tuesday, June 24, 2008, from 6 to 8 PM and on Wednesday from 10 AM until time 
  of the service.   
  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 6/22/2008.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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