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Dean Richard Dambach

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Dean Richard Dambach Veteran

Birth
Harmony, Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
7 Sep 2009 (aged 82)
Zelienople, Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Leesburg, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Dean Richard Dambach, 82, resident of Passavant Retirement Home in Zelienople, formerly of Hickory Township, Lawrence County, passed away Monday, Sept. 7, 2009. Born on March 31, 1927 in Harmony, Pa., he was a son of the late Harvey O. and Phyllis Creese Dambach. He was the ninth of 10 children in the family.

Wife: Marian C. Kuhlber Dambach.

He enlisted in the Navy and served in Corpus Christi, Texas. He worked at the Johnson Bronze Company for 30 years and later at the Kirk Hutton Company in New Castle. He was a member of the Leesburg Presbyterian Church. His real love was farming, and he raised beef, dairy cattle, pigs and chickens. A long-time resident in Volant, he was married to Marian C. Kuhlber, who survives in Baden. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Feb. 26, 2009.

Survivors include two children, Edward C. (Diana) Dambach of Beaver Falls, and Patty K. (Thomas) Bishop of Baden; grandchildren Gretchen L. (Steven) Fritsch, Kimberly L. (Kirk) Haberman, Timothy J. Bishop, Robyn N. Bishop and Abigail A. Bishop; four sisters, Bess Greenawalt, Clysta Hollinback, Lillian Weller and Loma Walczak; great-grandchildren, Hallie and Adrienne Fritsch and Bryden Haberman; two brothers-in-law, C. Clair Martin and Benjamin Herr; as well as many nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by three brothers, George, Harvey and Elmer Dambach; two sisters, Mildred Kennedy and Dorothy (Dot) Hasbach; and an infant son, Gary Dean Dambach.

Visiting hours will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Smith Funeral Home, Village of Leesburg, 1778 Perry Highway, Volant.A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. on Friday at the funeral home with the Rev. Thomas Gomola officiating. Burial will be at Leesburg Presbyterian Church Cemetery.Memorial contributions may be made to the Leesburg Presbyterian Church, 1831 Perry Highway, Volant, Pa., 16156 or the Passavant Retirement Center, 401 South Main St., Zelienople, Pa., 16061.Please sign the guestbook at www.legacy.com/ncnewsonline/Obituaries.asp.

Published in the New Castle News from 9/9/2009 - 9/11/2009.
Dean Richard Dambach, 82, resident of Passavant Retirement Home in Zelienople, formerly of Hickory Township, Lawrence County, passed away Monday, Sept. 7, 2009. Born on March 31, 1927 in Harmony, Pa., he was a son of the late Harvey O. and Phyllis Creese Dambach. He was the ninth of 10 children in the family.

Wife: Marian C. Kuhlber Dambach.

He enlisted in the Navy and served in Corpus Christi, Texas. He worked at the Johnson Bronze Company for 30 years and later at the Kirk Hutton Company in New Castle. He was a member of the Leesburg Presbyterian Church. His real love was farming, and he raised beef, dairy cattle, pigs and chickens. A long-time resident in Volant, he was married to Marian C. Kuhlber, who survives in Baden. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Feb. 26, 2009.

Survivors include two children, Edward C. (Diana) Dambach of Beaver Falls, and Patty K. (Thomas) Bishop of Baden; grandchildren Gretchen L. (Steven) Fritsch, Kimberly L. (Kirk) Haberman, Timothy J. Bishop, Robyn N. Bishop and Abigail A. Bishop; four sisters, Bess Greenawalt, Clysta Hollinback, Lillian Weller and Loma Walczak; great-grandchildren, Hallie and Adrienne Fritsch and Bryden Haberman; two brothers-in-law, C. Clair Martin and Benjamin Herr; as well as many nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by three brothers, George, Harvey and Elmer Dambach; two sisters, Mildred Kennedy and Dorothy (Dot) Hasbach; and an infant son, Gary Dean Dambach.

Visiting hours will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Smith Funeral Home, Village of Leesburg, 1778 Perry Highway, Volant.A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. on Friday at the funeral home with the Rev. Thomas Gomola officiating. Burial will be at Leesburg Presbyterian Church Cemetery.Memorial contributions may be made to the Leesburg Presbyterian Church, 1831 Perry Highway, Volant, Pa., 16156 or the Passavant Retirement Center, 401 South Main St., Zelienople, Pa., 16061.Please sign the guestbook at www.legacy.com/ncnewsonline/Obituaries.asp.

Published in the New Castle News from 9/9/2009 - 9/11/2009.


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