Galen F. Buffington Passed Away Tuesday
Galen F. Buffington, age 56 years, died suddenly of a heart ailment at his home, North Market Street, town [Elizabethville], Tuesday evening.
Mr. Buffington was a son of the late B. Franklin Buffington and Clara J. [Lupold] Buffington and was a native and lifelong resident of Elizabethville where he had operated a restaurant for many years.
During the past ten years he was a clerk in the office of the Dauphin County Commissioners, Harrisburg, and in that capacity had charge of real estate holdings acquired by the county in tax sales.
He was a member of Salem Lutheran Church and the Royal Arcanum Council of town, and the Harrisburg Republican Club. He had also served as Republican Committeeman for Elizabethville the past thirteen years.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Evelyn [Fogelman] Buffington, a son, Floyd Buffington, of Elizabethville, and two daughters, Joanne Buffington and Nancy Buffington, both at home, and four grandchildren.
Others survivors are three sisters, Mrs. H. Eugene Davis and Miss Emma Buffington, both of Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Gertrude Wagner, Philadelphia, and four brothers: Herbert Buffington, Joseph Buffington, Ralph Buffington, and Paul Buffington, all of Elizabethville.
Services will be held from the Hoover Funeral Home, Berrysburg, at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Rev. W. Z. Artz, pastor of Salem Lutheran Church, Elizabethville, will officiate, and interment will be in Maple Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Hoover Funeral Home Friday evening.
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From a local newspaper at the time of his death.
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