Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Ditzler, Harvey E.  December 25, 2011
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  Published in Lebanon Daily News on December 27, 2011
  Harvey E. Ditzler 
  
  JONESTOWN Harvey E. Ditzler, 93, passed away on Sunday, December 25, 2011, at 
  Lebanon Good Samaritan Hospital. He was the husband of Margaret Habig Ditzler, 
  who died in 1987. Born in Lickdale on May 31, 1918, he was the son of the late 
  Francis W. and Pauline Deaven Ditzler. He and his late brother John were the 
  owners and operators of Ditzler Bros. Garage, which they operated for 34 
  years. He retired in 1983. Harvey was a member of the Harrisburg Lodge Chapter 
  of the Masonic Order for over 50 years. (32nd Degree) Zembo Temple; Tall 
  Cedars of Lebanon, the Mount Olivet Lodge #704 of Lebanon, the Lebanon Co. 
  Shrine Club, a life member of the VFW Post 23, the Fredericksburg American 
  Legion Post 915 for 54 years, a life member of the Lebanon County Historical 
  Society, and Honorary Member of the Lickdale Community Fire Co. and the Green 
  Point Fire Co. He also served 13 years as a Union Twp. Supervisor. He was a 
  member of the Sattazahn Lutheran Church., and a former member of the Pleasant 
  Hill Chapel and Sunday School where he was the Supt. for 33 years and served 
  for over 40 years as the cemetery treasurer. Harvey was a veteran of the U.S. 
  Army Air Force where he served in Germany during WW II. He was formerly 
  employed at the Bethlehem Steel Plant Con-Site and at Olmstead Air Force, 
  Middletown as an electrician. Harvey loved the outdoors, deer and small game 
  hunting, his Beagle hunting dogs, farming, flowers and gardening. He loved to 
  feed the birds and watch the humming birds. Harvey and Margaret loved to 
  travel and spent time all over the United States and Europe. Harvey loved 
  children and although they were never blessed with their own, he was "Uncle 
  Harvey" to every "child". In addition to his immediate family, he was Uncle 
  Harvey to 28 nieces and nephews, 51 great nieces and nephews and at least 34 
  great, great nieces and nephews. He is survived by a brother Francis W. 
  Ditzler, Jr. and his wife Dorothy of Lickdale; his sister Anna widow of Robert 
  Felty of Lansdale and 20 nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his 
  brothers John, Clarence and Warren and his sisters Sarah Fake and Katie Boltz. 
  Memorial services will be held on Friday at 2 p.m. at the Sattazahn Lutheran 
  Church. Masonic Service will be at 5:45 Thursday evening followed by a viewing 
  from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kreamer & Lum Funeral Home & Crematory Rt. 72 & Camp 
  Meeting Rd., Jonestown. Interment will be at the Pleasant Hill Chapel 
  Cemetery, at the convenience of the family. 
   
  Published in Lebanon Daily News on December 27, 2011 
   
  
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