OBIT: Simon L. TROUTMAN, 1998, Interment in Liverpool, Perry County, PA

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Simon L. Troutman, 87, Selinsgrove

  SELINSGROVE – Simon Leroy "Sim" Troutman, 87, of Penn Lutheran Village Nursing 
Home, and formerly of RR1 Mount Pleasant Mills, died Saturday Oct. 17, 1998, at 
the nursing home where he lived for one year.
  He was born March 2, 1911, in Juniata County, near Oriental, a son of the late 
Aaron S. and Dillie (Strawser) Troutman.  He was married to the former Pauline 
Lyter, who died April 24, 1971.
  He attended Laurel Hill Grammar Schoolhouse in Oriental.
  He was a World War II Army veteran, serving in Company A, 139th Airborne 
Engineers Battalion, earn-  -- line missing –- and the European African Middle 
Eastern Service Medal with six bronze stars.
  He retired in 1973 as a laborer from Wallis' Farm Market Hatchery, RR2, 
Liverpool after 35 years, then went on a part-time basis until age 75, when he 
fully retired.
  Mr. Troutman was a member of St. Thomas Independent Brethren in Christ Church, 
Mount Pleasant Mills.
  He was a member of Fremont Volunteer Fire Co., Mount Pleasant Mills and 
Reliance Hose Company Ambulance League, Middleburg, and Medic 55 of Evangelical 
Community Hospital, Lewisburg.
  He enjoyed gardening, craft work, especially wooden crates and wind chimes.
  Surviving are his wife, the former Irene M. (Goodling) Heintzelman, who he 
married Dec. 28, 1974; one son, James B. of Millerstown; one daughter, Jane A. 
Master and son-in-law, Robert E. of RR 2 McAlisterville; five stepsons, Clyde A. 
and his wife, Shirley of Rockville, Md., Dale R. and his wife, Nancy of RR 4 
Middleburg, Dean E. and his wife, Karen of Kreamer, Rudolph A. and his wife, 
Janet of Montgomery, Ala., and Roger L. and his wife Bonnie of Danville; 15 
grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and one daughter-in-law, Erma J. of 
HCR 72, Selinsgrove.
  He was preceded in death by four brothers, Howard in childhood, Henry on Oct. 
16, 1996, George on Nov. 20, 1993, and Jacob; five sisters, Edna in childhood, 
Ellen Swope, Orpha Kline, Naomi Maneval, and Grace Troutman, who died in 
childhood; one stepson, Glenn E. Heintzelman on June 25, 1994.
  The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, at St. Thomas Independent 
Brethren in Christ Church, RR 2 Mount Pleasant Mills, by the Rev. Roger L. Womer 
and the Rev. Clair R. Troutman, his nephew, assisting.  Burial will be in St. 
John's (Barners) Lutheran Church Cemetery, RR1 Liverpool, with full military 
honors by American Legion Post No. 364 of Liverpool.
  Visitors may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, at the George P. Garman Funeral 
Home, Mount Pleasant Mills.
  Contributions may be made to St. Thomas Independent Brethren in Christ Church, 
RR2, Box 9, Mount Pleasant Mills, Pa, 17853.

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