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Earl Robert Weikert

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Earl Robert Weikert

Birth
Death
7 Nov 1944 (aged 12)
Burial
Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.7771806, Longitude: -77.3796778
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THE GETTYSBURG TIMES November 8, 1944

An election-induced holiday ended fatally for Earl Robert Weikert, 12-year-old son of
Mr. And Mrs. Clarence M Weikert, Gettysburg R2, Tuesday afternoon when he was shot by his own rifle as he hunted on his father's Highland township farm.
Earl was a pupil at Church school in Highland township.
…Earl is survived by his parents, Clarence M and Maude Spangler Weikert; two brothers and two sisters, J Wilbur, Gettysburg R3; Donald S, Gettysburg R2; Mrs. William S Neely, Fairfield, and
Miss Anna G Weikert, York. The maternal grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Spangler, Fairfield, and the paternal grandparents, Mr. And Mrs. Mahlon Weiket, Fairfield also survive.
The youth was a member of the Sunday school of Zion Lutheran church at Fairfield.
Funeral services Friday afternoon at 2:00 at the Allison funeral home in Fairfield with the
Rev. John C McCune, 2nd pastor of the Fairfield Lutheran church, officiating, assisted by the
Rev. Emmert G Colestok Enola, former pastor. Interment in Union cemetery at Fairfield.
THE GETTYSBURG TIMES November 8, 1944

An election-induced holiday ended fatally for Earl Robert Weikert, 12-year-old son of
Mr. And Mrs. Clarence M Weikert, Gettysburg R2, Tuesday afternoon when he was shot by his own rifle as he hunted on his father's Highland township farm.
Earl was a pupil at Church school in Highland township.
…Earl is survived by his parents, Clarence M and Maude Spangler Weikert; two brothers and two sisters, J Wilbur, Gettysburg R3; Donald S, Gettysburg R2; Mrs. William S Neely, Fairfield, and
Miss Anna G Weikert, York. The maternal grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Spangler, Fairfield, and the paternal grandparents, Mr. And Mrs. Mahlon Weiket, Fairfield also survive.
The youth was a member of the Sunday school of Zion Lutheran church at Fairfield.
Funeral services Friday afternoon at 2:00 at the Allison funeral home in Fairfield with the
Rev. John C McCune, 2nd pastor of the Fairfield Lutheran church, officiating, assisted by the
Rev. Emmert G Colestok Enola, former pastor. Interment in Union cemetery at Fairfield.


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  • Created by: deb
  • Added: Mar 12, 2007
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18374347/earl_robert-weikert: accessed ), memorial page for Earl Robert Weikert (27 Mar 1932–7 Nov 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18374347, citing Fairfield Union Cemetery, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by deb (contributor 46554453).