Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Spancake, Hester S.M. Thomas    September 17, 2008
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  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 9/19/2008 
  Spancake, Hester S.M. Thomas     
   
   
  Hester S.M. Thomas Spancake, 87, of the Lebanon Valley Brethren Home, Palmyra, 
  died Wednesday, September 17, 2008, at the home. Born February 11, 1921, in 
  McClure, Snyder County, she was the daughter of the late Charles F. and Myrtle 
  J.B. (Fisher) Krick. Retiring from The Hershey Company, bean hulling 
  department, she was very active in the Palmyra American Legion Post No. 72 and 
  the Palmyra Ambulance Corp. She was a sergeant in the Women's Army Corps during 
  World War II, was a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, Palmyra, and 
  Chocolate Workers Union Local 464, an honorary member of the 1st Infantry 
  Division, and a life member of the Mount Zion Fire Company. She was the widow 
  of Corporal Thaddeus J. Thomas, who was killed in Africa January 1943. 
  Surviving are two children, Dr. Michael W., husband of Pamela Spancake of West 
  Chester, and Dawn S., wife of Donald Colon of Palmyra; grandchildren Derek 
  Colon, Dana Spancake, Christopher Spancake and Brad Spancake; and three great-
  grandchildren. Funeral services will be held 12 p.m. Monday, September 22, 
  2008, at Buse Funeral Home, 145 North Grant Street, Palmyra, preceded by a 
  viewing from 11 a.m. Burial, with military honors, will be held at Indiantown 
  Gap National Cemetery, Annville. Memorial contributions may be made to 
  PinnacleHealth Hospice, 3705 Elmwood Drive, Harrisburg, PA 17110; or to the 
  American Diabetes Association, 3544 North Progress Avenue, Suite 101, 
  Harrisburg, PA 17110.  
  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 9/19/2008  
  
  
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