Jacob Speicher Is Dead At 68
Jacob E. Speicher, 68, above, succumbed yesterday afternoon at his home, 29 Gore Street, Parsons section 13 minutes after being stricken ill. A lifelong resident of Parsons, where he was born in 1889, Mr. Speicher was a well known retired master plumber.
Mr. Speicher was named master machinist of the Hudson Coal Company when his father the late Jacob A. Speicher retired from that position in 1927. In 1929 he became registered as a master plumber and started his own business in Parsons. In 1950 he assumed the position of chief of maintenance at Hotel Redington, a post he held until his retirement three years ago.
An active sports fan, Mr. Speicher seldom missed a Wilkes-Barre Barons basketball game at home or away. A member of the North End Little League he served as its treasurer from 1954 to 1956. He was also a member of the Bumper Block Club of Memorial YMCA; member of Memorial YMCA annual basketball tourney; honorary Judge of the Amateur Athletic Union; charter board member of Boy Scout Troop 182; an organizer of the Catholic Club of Parsons and a member of St Dominic's Church and Holy Name Society.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Anne McGavin. Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Marie Barry, Kingston, N. Y. and Mrs. Helen Adams, West Palm Beach, Fla.; a son, Cyril Speicher, RN, a nurse at Wilkes-Barre VA Hospital and an instructor at Wilkes College; two sisters, Sister Mary Edmund, principal of St. Gabriel's High School, Hazleton, and Mrs. William McDermott, Wilkes-Barre, also nine grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Friday at 9 from the McLaughlin Funeral Home, 142 South Washington Street with a requiem mass at 9:30 in St Dominic's Church. Friends may call tonight, 7 to 10, and Thursday, 2 to 5 and 7 to 10.
(Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, 20 Nov 1957)
Jacob E. Speicher, 68, above, succumbed yesterday afternoon at his home, 29 Gore Street, Parsons section 13 minutes after being stricken ill. A lifelong resident of Parsons, where he was born in 1889, Mr. Speicher was a well known retired master plumber.
Mr. Speicher was named master machinist of the Hudson Coal Company when his father the late Jacob A. Speicher retired from that position in 1927. In 1929 he became registered as a master plumber and started his own business in Parsons. In 1950 he assumed the position of chief of maintenance at Hotel Redington, a post he held until his retirement three years ago.
An active sports fan, Mr. Speicher seldom missed a Wilkes-Barre Barons basketball game at home or away. A member of the North End Little League he served as its treasurer from 1954 to 1956. He was also a member of the Bumper Block Club of Memorial YMCA; member of Memorial YMCA annual basketball tourney; honorary Judge of the Amateur Athletic Union; charter board member of Boy Scout Troop 182; an organizer of the Catholic Club of Parsons and a member of St Dominic's Church and Holy Name Society.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Anne McGavin. Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Marie Barry, Kingston, N. Y. and Mrs. Helen Adams, West Palm Beach, Fla.; a son, Cyril Speicher, RN, a nurse at Wilkes-Barre VA Hospital and an instructor at Wilkes College; two sisters, Sister Mary Edmund, principal of St. Gabriel's High School, Hazleton, and Mrs. William McDermott, Wilkes-Barre, also nine grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Friday at 9 from the McLaughlin Funeral Home, 142 South Washington Street with a requiem mass at 9:30 in St Dominic's Church. Friends may call tonight, 7 to 10, and Thursday, 2 to 5 and 7 to 10.
(Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, 20 Nov 1957)
Jacob Speicher Is Dead At 68
Jacob E. Speicher, 68, above, succumbed yesterday afternoon at his home, 29 Gore Street, Parsons section 13 minutes after being stricken ill. A lifelong resident of Parsons, where he was born in 1889, Mr. Speicher was a well known retired master plumber.
Mr. Speicher was named master machinist of the Hudson Coal Company when his father the late Jacob A. Speicher retired from that position in 1927. In 1929 he became registered as a master plumber and started his own business in Parsons. In 1950 he assumed the position of chief of maintenance at Hotel Redington, a post he held until his retirement three years ago.
An active sports fan, Mr. Speicher seldom missed a Wilkes-Barre Barons basketball game at home or away. A member of the North End Little League he served as its treasurer from 1954 to 1956. He was also a member of the Bumper Block Club of Memorial YMCA; member of Memorial YMCA annual basketball tourney; honorary Judge of the Amateur Athletic Union; charter board member of Boy Scout Troop 182; an organizer of the Catholic Club of Parsons and a member of St Dominic's Church and Holy Name Society.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Anne McGavin. Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Marie Barry, Kingston, N. Y. and Mrs. Helen Adams, West Palm Beach, Fla.; a son, Cyril Speicher, RN, a nurse at Wilkes-Barre VA Hospital and an instructor at Wilkes College; two sisters, Sister Mary Edmund, principal of St. Gabriel's High School, Hazleton, and Mrs. William McDermott, Wilkes-Barre, also nine grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Friday at 9 from the McLaughlin Funeral Home, 142 South Washington Street with a requiem mass at 9:30 in St Dominic's Church. Friends may call tonight, 7 to 10, and Thursday, 2 to 5 and 7 to 10.
(Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, 20 Nov 1957)
Jacob E. Speicher, 68, above, succumbed yesterday afternoon at his home, 29 Gore Street, Parsons section 13 minutes after being stricken ill. A lifelong resident of Parsons, where he was born in 1889, Mr. Speicher was a well known retired master plumber.
Mr. Speicher was named master machinist of the Hudson Coal Company when his father the late Jacob A. Speicher retired from that position in 1927. In 1929 he became registered as a master plumber and started his own business in Parsons. In 1950 he assumed the position of chief of maintenance at Hotel Redington, a post he held until his retirement three years ago.
An active sports fan, Mr. Speicher seldom missed a Wilkes-Barre Barons basketball game at home or away. A member of the North End Little League he served as its treasurer from 1954 to 1956. He was also a member of the Bumper Block Club of Memorial YMCA; member of Memorial YMCA annual basketball tourney; honorary Judge of the Amateur Athletic Union; charter board member of Boy Scout Troop 182; an organizer of the Catholic Club of Parsons and a member of St Dominic's Church and Holy Name Society.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Anne McGavin. Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. Marie Barry, Kingston, N. Y. and Mrs. Helen Adams, West Palm Beach, Fla.; a son, Cyril Speicher, RN, a nurse at Wilkes-Barre VA Hospital and an instructor at Wilkes College; two sisters, Sister Mary Edmund, principal of St. Gabriel's High School, Hazleton, and Mrs. William McDermott, Wilkes-Barre, also nine grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Friday at 9 from the McLaughlin Funeral Home, 142 South Washington Street with a requiem mass at 9:30 in St Dominic's Church. Friends may call tonight, 7 to 10, and Thursday, 2 to 5 and 7 to 10.
(Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, 20 Nov 1957)
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