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Doris Hunsberger-Slagle (Yerkes)

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Union Cemetery

201-303 Pennsylvania 332
Richboro Pennsylvania 18954
United States
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Doris Hunsberger-Slagle (Yerkes)

Born: 19 September 1927
Died: 31 July 2011
Age: 83 Years 10 Months 12 Days
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Enos Russell Hunsberger
Buried Here
16 Dec 1926 - Jul 1989
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Doris (Yerkes) Hunsberger-Slagle, 83, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Sunday, July 31, 2011 in the Lutheran Community at Telford. She was the wife of Herbert C. Slagle.

Born in Southampton Twp., she was a daughter of the late Walter L. and Edna K. (Walton) Yerkes.

A homemaker for most of her life, in her earlier years she was employed at Standard Pressed Steel in Jenkintown, and later at Patterson Iron Works in Plumsteadville.

Over the years, Mrs. Slagle attended Hilltown Baptist Church, where she sang in the choir, Faith Baptist Church in Sellersville, and Community Baptist Church in Quakertown. She was a member of the Milford Twp. Historical Society, and she also enjoyed quilting, sewing, refinishing furniture, and gardening. She will be sorely missed by her family and friends.

In addition to her husband, she was survived by three daughters, D. Lynn Brodhead and her husband, George, of Souderton, Dana Jo Harley and her husband, Wayne, of Hilltown, and Susan Y. Walter and her husband, James, of East Greenville; two sons, E. Russell Hunsberger, Jr. and his wife, Mary Ellen, of Dublin, and Christian D. Y. Hunsberger and his wife, Debra, of Trumbauersville; eleven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a stepson, Carl Slagle and his wife, Cheryl; two stepdaughters, Karen Slagle, and Kimberly Campbell and her husband, Frank; and two step-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband, E. Russell Hunsberger, who died in 1986; two sisters, Ella King and Marion Hurst; and two brothers, Archie Leach and Walter Yerkes.

Funeral Services were held on Monday, August 8, 2012 in the Hilltown Baptist Church, Hilltown. Interment was in the Union Cemetery, Richboro.

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Enos Russell Hunsberger
Buried Here
16 Dec 1926 - Jul 1989
BillionGraves.com record for Doris Hunsberger-Slagle (Yerkes) (19 September 1927 - 31 July 2011), BillionGraves Record Union Cemetery, Richboro, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, North America