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Laban Elliot Hershey

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Laban Elliot Hershey

Birth
Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
3 Feb 1955 (aged 71)
Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida, USA
Burial
Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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The Gettysburg Times February 4, 1955

Laban E. Hershey, 71, retired farmer, died in a hospital in Lake Wales, Fla., Thursday afternoon at 3:30 from a series of heart attacks.
Mr. Hershey suffered a heart attack Monday and was taken to the hospital. The second occurred on Thursday and caused his death.
The deceased had been spending winters in Florida. His home was on Fayetteville R.1, near Caledonia. He formerly had farmed along the Lincoln Highway, west of here, along Marsh Creek.
He was a native of Adams County and a son of the late Abram and Hosie (Eyster) Hershey.
He was a member of Flohr’s Lutheran Church and of the Cashtown Fire Company.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edna Cover Hershey, New Oxford; and these children, Donald H., Cashtown; Kermit, Westminster, Md., and Mrs. John Sadtler, Falls Church, Va. There are five grandchildren.
Two sisters and a brother also survive. They are Mrs. Hermie Zobler, Gettysburg; Samuel, of Greensburg, and Mrs. Charles Mumma, La Verna, Calif.
Funeral arrangements are being made by the Bender Funeral Home but are incomplete.
The Gettysburg Times February 4, 1955

Laban E. Hershey, 71, retired farmer, died in a hospital in Lake Wales, Fla., Thursday afternoon at 3:30 from a series of heart attacks.
Mr. Hershey suffered a heart attack Monday and was taken to the hospital. The second occurred on Thursday and caused his death.
The deceased had been spending winters in Florida. His home was on Fayetteville R.1, near Caledonia. He formerly had farmed along the Lincoln Highway, west of here, along Marsh Creek.
He was a native of Adams County and a son of the late Abram and Hosie (Eyster) Hershey.
He was a member of Flohr’s Lutheran Church and of the Cashtown Fire Company.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edna Cover Hershey, New Oxford; and these children, Donald H., Cashtown; Kermit, Westminster, Md., and Mrs. John Sadtler, Falls Church, Va. There are five grandchildren.
Two sisters and a brother also survive. They are Mrs. Hermie Zobler, Gettysburg; Samuel, of Greensburg, and Mrs. Charles Mumma, La Verna, Calif.
Funeral arrangements are being made by the Bender Funeral Home but are incomplete.


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  • Added: Oct 27, 2002
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6884634/laban_elliot-hershey: accessed ), memorial page for Laban Elliot Hershey (16 Feb 1883–3 Feb 1955), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6884634, citing Flohrs Lutheran Church Cemetery, Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by deb (contributor 46554453).