Lorenzo S. McCracken, sixty-six, of 243 East Clay Street, a retired Pennsylvania Railroad Engineer with 48 years of service, died Tuesday afternoon in St. Joseph's Hospital after an illness of three months. Mr. McCracken, a native of Columbia, was the son of Lorenzo F. and Mary E. Wambaugh McCracken. He retired from active service with the PRR in 1949.
He was a member of the following organizations: the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; the PRR Relief Organization; the Harrisburg Consistory; Lancaster Lodge of Perfection No. 14; Rajah Temple, Reading; Lancaster County Shrine Club; and Columbia Lodge #287, Free and Accepted Masons.
Surviving are his wife, Elsie Ober Boyer McCracken, and these children: Catherine, wife of Russel D. Allen, Lancaster; Donald L., Lancaster; Ethel Jean, wife of Stephen Aument, Jr., Lancaster; William H., Bareville; and Jerome, at home. Two grandchildren also survive. Also surviving are two sisters: Carrie, wife of Charles Hall, Clayton, Delaware, and mary, wife of Harvey Kauffman, Kinderhook; a brother, Jerry, Baltimore, Maryland; two step-brothers, Lamartine S Howard, Lancaster, and William Howard, Harrisburg.
Daily Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Wednesday March 29, 1950
He was a member of the following organizations: the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; the PRR Relief Organization; the Harrisburg Consistory; Lancaster Lodge of Perfection No. 14; Rajah Temple, Reading; Lancaster County Shrine Club; and Columbia Lodge #287, Free and Accepted Masons.
Surviving are his wife, Elsie Ober Boyer McCracken, and these children: Catherine, wife of Russel D. Allen, Lancaster; Donald L., Lancaster; Ethel Jean, wife of Stephen Aument, Jr., Lancaster; William H., Bareville; and Jerome, at home. Two grandchildren also survive. Also surviving are two sisters: Carrie, wife of Charles Hall, Clayton, Delaware, and mary, wife of Harvey Kauffman, Kinderhook; a brother, Jerry, Baltimore, Maryland; two step-brothers, Lamartine S Howard, Lancaster, and William Howard, Harrisburg.
Daily Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Wednesday March 29, 1950
Lorenzo S. McCracken, sixty-six, of 243 East Clay Street, a retired Pennsylvania Railroad Engineer with 48 years of service, died Tuesday afternoon in St. Joseph's Hospital after an illness of three months. Mr. McCracken, a native of Columbia, was the son of Lorenzo F. and Mary E. Wambaugh McCracken. He retired from active service with the PRR in 1949.
He was a member of the following organizations: the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; the PRR Relief Organization; the Harrisburg Consistory; Lancaster Lodge of Perfection No. 14; Rajah Temple, Reading; Lancaster County Shrine Club; and Columbia Lodge #287, Free and Accepted Masons.
Surviving are his wife, Elsie Ober Boyer McCracken, and these children: Catherine, wife of Russel D. Allen, Lancaster; Donald L., Lancaster; Ethel Jean, wife of Stephen Aument, Jr., Lancaster; William H., Bareville; and Jerome, at home. Two grandchildren also survive. Also surviving are two sisters: Carrie, wife of Charles Hall, Clayton, Delaware, and mary, wife of Harvey Kauffman, Kinderhook; a brother, Jerry, Baltimore, Maryland; two step-brothers, Lamartine S Howard, Lancaster, and William Howard, Harrisburg.
Daily Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Wednesday March 29, 1950
He was a member of the following organizations: the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; the PRR Relief Organization; the Harrisburg Consistory; Lancaster Lodge of Perfection No. 14; Rajah Temple, Reading; Lancaster County Shrine Club; and Columbia Lodge #287, Free and Accepted Masons.
Surviving are his wife, Elsie Ober Boyer McCracken, and these children: Catherine, wife of Russel D. Allen, Lancaster; Donald L., Lancaster; Ethel Jean, wife of Stephen Aument, Jr., Lancaster; William H., Bareville; and Jerome, at home. Two grandchildren also survive. Also surviving are two sisters: Carrie, wife of Charles Hall, Clayton, Delaware, and mary, wife of Harvey Kauffman, Kinderhook; a brother, Jerry, Baltimore, Maryland; two step-brothers, Lamartine S Howard, Lancaster, and William Howard, Harrisburg.
Daily Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Wednesday March 29, 1950
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