Jean Katherine Spangler and Wilbur Rhea Stambaugh

WILBUR RHEA STAMBAUGH, son of MARTHA LILLIE SHOVER and NILES WHARTON STAMBAUGH, was born January 17, 1918 in New Kingston, Cumberland, Pennsylvania,⁷³⁷⁷ and died October 21, 2000 in Sinking Spring, Cumberland, Pennsylvania.¹⁰⁸³⁶

He married JEAN KATHERINE SPANGLER on March 7, 1941 in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania.¹⁰⁸³⁸ She was born April 12, 1921 in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania,⁵⁶ and died July 4, 2004 in West Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania.¹⁰⁸³⁷

Evening Sentinel, March 8, 1941¹⁰⁸³⁸

Stambaugh—Spangler

The marriage of Miss Jean Katherine Spangler and Wilbur Rhea Stambaugh, both of Mechanicsburg, was solemnized Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock at the home of the bride's grandmother, Mrs. J. R. Spangler, 133 East Main Street, Mechanicsburg.

Rev. Hugh R. Lobb, pastor of the First Church of God of Mechanicsburg, performed the ceremony in the presence of the immediate families.

Miss Spangler, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benson R. Spangler, 209 West Main Street, was graduated from the Mechanicsburg High School with the class of 1938. Mr. Stambaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Niles Stambaugh, 144 East Main Street, was also graduated from Mechanicsburg High School in 1936. He attended Central Pennsylvania Business College, and is associated with the Blough Manufacturing Company, in the Harrisburg office.

Sentinel, October 22, 2000¹⁰⁸³⁶

Wilbur Stambaugh

Wilbur Stambaugh, 82, of 904 Fritztown Road, Sinking Spring, South Heidelberg Township, died Saturday, Oct. 21, 2000, at his home.

Born in Mechanicsburg, he was the son of the late Niles and Lillie Shover Stambaugh.

He was employed as a salesman for International Harvester in the Harrisburg store.

He was a 1936 graduate of Mechanicsburg High School and also a graduate of Morgan's Business School, Carlisle.

Mr. Stambaugh was an Army veteran of World War II.

He was a lifetime member of the Adamstown VFW.

He is survived by his wife, Jean S. Spangler Stambaugh, a son, David B. Stambaugh at home; two daughters, Diane Fauerbach of Allentown and April Stambaugh of Atlanta; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. in Lamm and Witman Funeral Home Inc., Wernersville. Interment will be in Pleasant View Cemetery, Spring Township.

Friends may call Tuesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home.

Sentinel, July 6, 2004¹⁰⁸³⁷

Jean S. Stambaugh

Jean S. Stambaugh, 83, a resident of Villa St. Elizabeth in West Reading for the past eight months and formerly of Fritztown Road, Spring Township, died Sunday, July 4, 2004, in the Reading Hospital, where she was admitted earlier that day.

Born in Mechanicsburg, she was the daughter of the late Benson R. and Vera A. (Seidle) Spangler and the widow of Wilbur R. Stambaugh, who died Oct. 21, 2000.

A 1938 graduate of Mechanicsburg High School, she was employed by International Harvester in Harrisburg from 1941 to 1944.

Mrs. Stambaugh is survived by a son, David B. Stambaugh of Spring Township, Berks County; two daughters, Diane (Stambaugh) Fauerbach of Allentown and April Stambaugh of Atlanta, Ga.; a brother, Benson Spangler of Mechanicsburg; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Graveside services will be at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in Pleasant View Cemetery, Spring Township.

Friends may call from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday in the Lamm and Witman Funeral Home, 243 W. Penn Ave., Wernersville.