Benjamin Harry Strickland

1919 - 2001  (81 years)

• Name	Benjamin Harry Strickland
  Birth	18 Jun 1919	Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 May 2001
  Burial	Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Person ID	I7353	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Henry Strickland,   b. 18 Sep 1885, Pennsylvania, USA d. 15 Jun 1921, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 35 years)
  Mother	Anne Rothrock,   b. 15 Nov 1887, Pennsylvania, USA d. 20 Mar 1971, New Cumberland, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	1916
  Family ID	F4611	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Louise (Strickland),   b. 11 Dec 1923   d. 2 Nov 2016 (Age 92 years)
  Family ID	F4614	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Benjamin Harry Strickland, 81, of Wormleysburg, died Wednesday in Harrisburg Hospital. He retired as public affairs officer from the former Defense Depot Mechanicsburg, where he received the Meritorious Civilian Service Award and was named Supervisor of the Month. He had worked at the former Olmsted Air Force Base, Lower Swatara Twp.; was a graduate of New Cumberland High School and attended Pennsylvania State University; was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; a member of Baughman Memorial United Methodist Church, New Cumberland, where he had been an administrative board member, orchestra leader, youth director, choir member and Sunday school teacher; a Boy Scout music merit badge counselor; and a member of Lowther Manor F&AM Lodge 781, Harrisburg Consistory, Zembo Shrine and its band, and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon band. Surviving are his wife, Mary Louise Horn Strickland. Stone & Murray Funeral Home, New Cumberland Harrisburg Patriot News 19 May 2001 CPL - US Army - WWII Parents: Benjamin Strickland, Anna Rothrock

  
  

• Sources

  [S191] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Year: 1940; Census Place: New Cumberland, Cumberland, Pennsylvania; Roll: m-t0627-03479; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 21-40 (Reliability: 0). [S193] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Year: 1930; Census Place: New Cumberland, Cumberland, Pennsylvania; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 0031; FHL microfilm: 2341759 (Reliability: 0).