Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Ulmer, Frances E.  February 18, 2011
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  Published in Lebanon Daily News on February 20, 2011 
  Frances E. Ulmer 
  
  CORNWALL Frances Elizabeth Metzger Ulmer, 85, passed on to her eternal reward 
  on Friday, February 18, 2011, after a brief illness and hospitalization. She 
  was a resident of Cornwall Manor Retirement Community in Lebanon County. She 
  was the wife of Rev. Harold L. Ulmer, who died on March 16, 2003. She is 
  survived by a son, Harold David Ulmer and his wife, Susan L. Arnold of 
  Mountville; granddaughters, Amanda Bethe Ulmer Campbell of Georgetown, Maine, 
  and Molly Ann Ulmer Delan of Arrowsic, Maine, and their mother, Wendy Uhler 
  Ulmer, also of Maine; great-grandsons, Connor Harold Campbell and Tucker 
  Robinson Harold Delan; and stepgrandchildren, Nicholas Longobardi of Chandler, 
  Ariz., and Lauren (Longobardi), Jim, and Kaitlyn Henretty, all of Chesapeake, 
  Md. Other surviving relatives include a niece, Elaine Metzger Jones of Prescott 
  Valley, Ariz.; a nephew, Robert Aringdale of Burlington, Iowa; and numerous 
  grand-nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Bertha Iowa 
  Metzger and David Metzger; a sister, Eunice Dorothy Metzger Aringdale, and a 
  brother, Hollis David Metzger, both of Iowa. Frances E. Ulmer was born on July 
  10, 1925, on her parent's farm in rural Winfield, Louisa County, Iowa, and 
  attended public school in Wyman, Iowa, where she graduated from high school in 
  1941. Following graduation she was employed by the Winfield Beacon newspaper 
  where she was a typesetter and office clerk. It was there that she met her 
  future husband, Harold L. Ulmer of Lancaster, who was serving as a pastoral 
  intern at the Winfield Presbyterian church. He was at the time a student at 
  Iowa Wesleyan College. They were married December 19, 1949, at the Spring Run 
  Church, Spring Run, Iowa. The couple then moved to Pennsylvania where they 
  resided in West Reading while Mr. Ulmer attended seminary in Reading. Frances 
  was a faithful and loyal wife, serving alongside her husband in pastorates in 
  United Brethren, Evangelical United Brethren, and United Methodist churches in 
  Ackermanville, Saylorsburg, Reading, Ironville, Ephrata, and Cleona, all in 
  Pennsylvania. Ironically, one of the first churches the couple served in 
  Saylorsburg was only several miles from the town (Cherry Valley) where Mrs. 
  Ulmer's Metzger relatives began their migration to Iowa in the early 1800's. In 
  addition to being a full-time homemaker, Frances served in various unofficial 
  church capacities over the years - pianist, Sunday school and Vacation Bible 
  School teacher, and church secretary. She also assisted in various church fund 
  raising efforts (including the creation of a battalion of "sock monkeys" during 
  their craze in the 1950's). These various fund raising efforts helped to 
  finance the construction of a new church and an educational unit at the 
  couple's first pastoral assignment to the Ackermanville/Saylorsburg charge in 
  the Poconos. The couple retired from the Christian ministry in 1988 and moved 
  to Cornwall Manor in 2000. Throughout the years, Frances Ulmer's pastime 
  interests included decorating, antiquing, playing the piano, traveling, 
  painting, genealogy, cooking, needlework, and corresponding with family members 
  and various church friends with whom she established long-lasting 
  relationships. At Cornwall Manor she worked as a volunteer in the community's 
  thrift shop and served as a visitation volunteer in the health center. At the 
  request of Mrs. Ulmer, there will be only a private interment service at 
  Ironville cemetery in the spring.  Kreamer Funeral Home is in charge of 
  arrangements . 
  
  Published in Lebanon Daily News on February 20, 2011 
  
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