Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Koch, Harold C.  July 23, 2010
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  Published in Lebanon Daily News  on July 25, 2010 
  Harold C. Koch 
  
  Rev. Dr. Harold C. Koch CORNWALL Rev. Dr. Harold C. Koch, 103, Cornwall Manor, 
  died Friday, July 23, 2010, in the Lebanon Good Samaritan Hospital. He was the 
  husband of the late Violet Berger Koch. He was born in Conshohocken on February 
  21, 1907, a son of the late Benjamin D. and Laura H. Shenk Koch. He was a 1925 
  graduate of Conshohocken High School and graduated from Dickinson College in 
  1929. He received his M.A. from Boston University and was a graduate of Boston 
  University School of Theology. He received his Masters and Doctorate degrees in 
  Sacred Theology from Temple University. He was ordained a United Methodist 
  deacon in 1929 and an elder in 1932. He served in the Wyoming and Eastern 
  Pennsylvania Conferences of the United Methodist Church until his retirement in 
  1972. Presently he was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Lebanon. 
  Dr. Koch served in the U.S. Army as a chaplain during WW2 in the North African 
  and Italian theaters. He and his wife came to Cornwall Manor in 1979 and became 
  active in the life of Cornwall Manor as volunteers. He also was a historian for 
  the manor and was a lifemember of the Cornwall Manor Society. He served as 
  treasurer for many years for the retired clergy of the Eastern PA Conference; 
  and he was the author of a book which chronicled the history of all the 
  churches in the former Philadelphia Conference. He was a member of the American 
  Legion. He loved to travel and enjoyed photography. He is survived by a sister, 
  Elizabeth S. Koch, Newton; nieces, Kay Gorman, Kensington, Md., Janet Heidi, 
  R.I.; nephews, Robert Koch, Bethesda, Md., Charles Koch, Maplewood, N.J. He was 
  preceded in death by brothers, Benjamin Koch and George Koch. Funeral services 
  will be Thursday 1:30 p.m. in the Levi Zerr Chapel of Cornwall Manor. Interment 
  will be made in Mt. Lebanon Cemetery. The Rohland Funeral Home is in charge of 
  arrangements. 
  Published in Lebanon Daily News on July 25, 2010 
  
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