TRENTON, New Jersey--Retired Railroader Drowns in River
Harry W. Metzger, 73, of 1697 Pennington Road drowned in the Delaware River yesterday. He was a Reading Railroad yardmaster and trainman here who retired four years ago after a half-century of service.
The body was spotted by a couple fishing. It was brought ashore at Lalo and Lamberton Streets by Captain John Munder and his son William, of the Liberty Rescue Squad.
Metzger's body was discovered two hours after he was reported to the Ewing Township police as a missing person He'd left a Pennington Road nursing home where he lived.
Survivors are a son, Harry Metzger of Hamilton Township; a sister, Mrs. J. Russell Gunning and two brothers, Leroy and Russell, all of Trenton; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Hartmann Funeral Home, 539 Centre Street, with the Rev. Charles U. Wagner of Bible Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow evening.
Harry W. Metzger, 73, of 1697 Pennington Road drowned in the Delaware River yesterday. He was a Reading Railroad yardmaster and trainman here who retired four years ago after a half-century of service.
The body was spotted by a couple fishing. It was brought ashore at Lalo and Lamberton Streets by Captain John Munder and his son William, of the Liberty Rescue Squad.
Metzger's body was discovered two hours after he was reported to the Ewing Township police as a missing person He'd left a Pennington Road nursing home where he lived.
Survivors are a son, Harry Metzger of Hamilton Township; a sister, Mrs. J. Russell Gunning and two brothers, Leroy and Russell, all of Trenton; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Hartmann Funeral Home, 539 Centre Street, with the Rev. Charles U. Wagner of Bible Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow evening.
TRENTON, New Jersey--Retired Railroader Drowns in River
Harry W. Metzger, 73, of 1697 Pennington Road drowned in the Delaware River yesterday. He was a Reading Railroad yardmaster and trainman here who retired four years ago after a half-century of service.
The body was spotted by a couple fishing. It was brought ashore at Lalo and Lamberton Streets by Captain John Munder and his son William, of the Liberty Rescue Squad.
Metzger's body was discovered two hours after he was reported to the Ewing Township police as a missing person He'd left a Pennington Road nursing home where he lived.
Survivors are a son, Harry Metzger of Hamilton Township; a sister, Mrs. J. Russell Gunning and two brothers, Leroy and Russell, all of Trenton; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Hartmann Funeral Home, 539 Centre Street, with the Rev. Charles U. Wagner of Bible Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow evening.
Harry W. Metzger, 73, of 1697 Pennington Road drowned in the Delaware River yesterday. He was a Reading Railroad yardmaster and trainman here who retired four years ago after a half-century of service.
The body was spotted by a couple fishing. It was brought ashore at Lalo and Lamberton Streets by Captain John Munder and his son William, of the Liberty Rescue Squad.
Metzger's body was discovered two hours after he was reported to the Ewing Township police as a missing person He'd left a Pennington Road nursing home where he lived.
Survivors are a son, Harry Metzger of Hamilton Township; a sister, Mrs. J. Russell Gunning and two brothers, Leroy and Russell, all of Trenton; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Hartmann Funeral Home, 539 Centre Street, with the Rev. Charles U. Wagner of Bible Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow evening.
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