Founded: 1929

Related Links for South Newtown Township

Churches

Cemeteries

Jacksonville Evangelical Cemetery
Walnut Bottom Road, NE of Walnut Bottom

Rehobeth Methodist
Rehobeth Road, south of Walnut Bottom Rd.

Founded: 1783

Related Links for Southampton Township

Churches

Cemeteries

Cleversburg United Methodist
Walnut Dale Road at Gilbert Rd.

Gettel Family
Neil Rd south of Airport Rd.

Leesburg United Methodist
Strom Road south of Walnut Bottom Rd.

Middle Spring Presbyterian
Middle Spring Avenue

Old Older Mennonite
Duncan Road West of Newville Rd

Smith Family Cemetery
Smithdale Road

CARLISLE Joseph V. Thompson Jr., 77, of 536 Highland Ave., a former business manager, co-owner and publisher of The Evening Sentinel, died yesterday in Hershey Medical Center.

He became publisher of the paper after its sale to Howard Publications in 1968 and served in that capacity until 1974. Also, he was retired from the state Department of Public Welfare.

He was a Navy veteran of World War II; a former treasurer and trustee of the First Presbyterian Church; past president of the Greater Carlisle Area United Way, the Carlisle Kiwanis Club and the Carlisle Band Boosters; a former director of the Greater Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce; a former treasurer of the alumni association of Dickinson College's Kappa Sigma fraternity; and a former trustee of the Carlisle YMCA and Bosler Free Library.

He was a volunteer and docent for the Cumberland County Historical Society and a member of the Carlisle Salvation Army Advisory Board, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association, the Central Cumberland County Advisory Board of the former CCNB Bank, and the Old Towne Run Mountain Lodge.

Surviving are his wife, Jean Morrette Thompson; four sons, Joseph V. III of Vestal, N.Y., Michael W. of Dover, Mass., and Charles E., a staff writer for The Patriot-News, and Arthur M., both of Carlisle; a sister, Mary E. Lefkowski of Carlisle; and five grandchildren.

Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in Westminster Cemetery, North Middleton Twp. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in his church.

Visitation will follow the memorial service at the church.

Hoffman-Roth Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Memorial contributions may be made to his church, 1A N. Hanover St., Carlisle 17013.

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CARLISLE -- James T. 'Muck' Wardecker, a longtime downtown merchant and raconteur of 20th-century life here died Tuesday in the Thornwald Home. He was 89.

Wardecker, of the first block of Walnut Street, was the former owner of Wardecker's Men's Wear, a retail clothing business he had either worked at or owned since 1941.

Wardecker started as a clerk in the store, then run by Moses Blumenthal, and stayed on through 1963, when he acquired the store. The business is currently owned by his son, Fred, but the father continued to make daily visits until late last year.

Friends and colleagues yesterday remembered Wardecker as a fixture in the downtown business district and sports communities, and as a folksy historian who filled his store with photos and memorabilia of Carlisle's past and kept customers spellbound with stories to match.

'I always enjoyed my association with him at the store,' said George Bowen, a former Carlisle High School athletic director and baseball coach. 'You always had a good conversation with Muck, and he could substantiate so much about the past.'

Many of Wardecker's stories went well past Carlisle.

Several years ago, Fred Wardecker noted, production crews from NFL Films interviewed his father about Carlisle Indian School great Jim Thorpe as a part of a documentary series on early football heroes.

Thorpe and other Indian School alumni were frequent visitors to the store -- where they had lines of credit as students -- after leaving Carlisle, and Wardecker, one local Indian School expert noted, was the common thread who came to serve as a de facto alumni secretary for them.

'His store was the place where people would go after the Indian School closed to find out who had been through last and what was happening,' said Barbara Landis, an Indian School researcher at Cumberland County Historical Society.

'He was a person they could go share their stories with, and he kept them and he passed them on.'

But Wardecker made many important, often unsung contributions to his home community, noted longtime friend and retired Carlisle banker C. Richard Stover, who cited a range of beneficiaries from the high school athletic department to youth baseball programs.

'In my dealings with him, he was honest, dependable and reliable, and always dedicated to the growth of Carlisle commercially and athletically,' Stover said.

A Carlisle native, Wardecker attended Carlisle High School and Peirce Business School in Philadelphia.

He was a member of the Elks and the Cumberland County Historical Society, and a former member of the Greater Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Carlisle Association.

He was the widower of Ann Davis Wardecker. Surviving are two sons, James D. and Fred W., both of Carlisle; two daughters, Ketrin Loney of Clinton, Md., and Gretchen McCarren of Newville; a sister, Doris Bowen of Carlisle; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in Hoffman-Roth Funeral Home. Burial will be at the convenience of the family in Cumberland Valley Memorial Gardens, West Pennsboro Twp.

Visitation will follow the memorial service in the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Carlisle Town Band, 35 E. South St., Carlisle 17013.

Taxables in West Pennsborough Township in 1751

 

Anderson, William
Atchison, John
Blackstock, William
Brevard, Robert
Brown, George
Carithers, John
Carithers, William
Carithers, William
Cesna, Steven
Chestnut, John
Clark, Arthur
Cornelius, Josh
Crutchlow, James
Cunningham, Francis
Davison, John
Dempsay, Josh
Deniston, John
Duglass, William
Dunbar, David
Dunbar, William
Dunlap, William
Dunning, Ezekiel
Dunning, Mary
Erwin, Alex
Evans, Thomas
Forbush, Andrew
Gillgore, Anthony
Gillgore, Charles
Glass, John
Gordon, John
Griffin, Andrew
Guthrie, Robert
Harkness, William
Hays, Adam
Hunter, David
Hutton, Lewis
Kenedy, David
Kirkpatrick, James
Kollogh, David
Lamont, William
Langley, John
Laughlin, William
Lea, James
Leeper, Allen
Lindsay, Samuel
Livingston, William
Logan, Alex
Logan, John
Logan, William
Lusk, John
McAllister, Archibald
McBride, Alex
McClung, John
McClure John
McClure John
McClure, Alex
McClure, Samuel
McCool, Owen
McCoy, Thomas
McFarland, James
McFaul, Neal
McIntire, John
McMeans, James
McNaught, James
McQueston, Robert
Miller, David
Morrison, John
Parker, Margaret
Parker, William
Parker. Thomas
Patton, Thomas
Patton, William
Peebles, Jacob
Peebles, James
Piercy, Paul
Queery, William
Ralston, Andrew
Robb, Alex
Robeson, Pat
Scroggs, Allen
Swansy, John
Thomson, Josh
Townsley, William
Walker, Robert
Warnock, James
Weakly, James
Weyly, Alex
Wilson, John
Wilson, Samuel

 

Freemen:

McAdams, Andrew
McCurdy, David
McCurdy, John
McMunagle, James
Reynolds, Pat
Wilson, Samuel