Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Wild, Harold August 31, 2009
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  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 9/2/2009
  Wild, Harold  
   
   
  Harold Wild MILLERSVILLE Harold Wild, 88, passed away Monday, August 31, 2009, 
  at Susquehanna Valley Nursing and Rehab Center. He was married for 61 years to 
  Evelyn (Spitler) Wild of Millersville. Harold retired in 1980 from the Penn 
  Manor School District as the Director of Music, K-12. Formerly, he was the high 
  school band director and instrumental music teacher in the Penn Manor School 
  District. His teaching career began in 1947 in the Greene-Dreher School 
  District in the Poconos, Newfoundland, Pa. Harold played the French horn in the 
  Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. In high school, he played the French horn with 
  the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, and also while attending Lebanon Valley 
  College. In 1937, he was the state champion in French horn solo competition and 
  the winner of second division on the national level, while attending Cornwall 
  High School. Harold graduated from Lebanon Valley College with a Bachelor's 
  Degree in Music Education and from Columbia University with a Master's Degree 
  in Music Education. He also continued his advanced studies in music at Temple 
  and Penn State Universities. During WWII, he was in the Pacific for two ½ years 
  with the 7th Evacuation Hospital, U.S. Army. He served on the Islands of New 
  Caledonia, Fiji, Guadalcanal, New Britain, Luzon, and Japan. He was in the 
  invasion of Luzon at Lingayun Gulf and among the first troops to land in Japan 
  in the Army of occupation. He was awarded four bronze stars. Harold was born in 
  Moor Row, Cumbria, England, the son of the late James Joseph and Mary James 
  Wild. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, James Alan Wild, 
  husband of Katherine of Stewartstown; two grandchildren, Jeffrey Harold, 
  husband of Lindy of Lebanon, and Wendy Elizabeth Wild of Middletown. He is also 
  survived by a sister, Margaret, wife of Franklin E. Dechert of Lebanon. He was 
  preceded in death by a sister, Mary Treist, who died in 2007. Harold was a 
  member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Millersville, where he was the senior 
  choir director for 23 years, with his wife serving as the church organist. He 
  was also a Sunday School teacher at St. Paul and served on various church 
  committees, notably, as chairman of the furnishings committee for the new 
  church in 1973. Harold was a member of the Pennsylvania Association of School 
  Retirees, and VFW Millersville Post #7294. Harold enjoyed playing golf and 
  swimming. He was an avid Philadelphia Phillies and Eagles fan. Relatives and 
  friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral service from St. Paul 
  Lutheran Church, 222 N. George St., Millersville, PA 17551, on Friday at 10 
  a.m. with the Rev. Dr. Bruton Parry officiating. Visitation will be held at the 
  church from 9:30 to 10 a.m. Interment will take place from Cornwall Methodist 
  Cemetery with military honors. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in 
  Harold's memory to St. Paul Lutheran Church; or to Hospice of Lancaster County 
  685 Good Drive P.O. Box 4125 Lancaster, PA 17604. Arrangements made by Charles 
  F. Snyder Funeral Home, 872-5041, Millersville. 
  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 9/2/2009  
  
  
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