 1915 - 2005 (90 years)
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| Name |
Calvin L Brossman |
| Born |
31 Aug 1915 |
Wernersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
07 Dec 2005 |
Spring Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
| Buried |
10 Dec 2005 |
Saint John's (Hain's) Church Cemetery, Wernersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
| Person ID |
I160235 |
Strausstown Roots |
| Last Modified |
11 Mar 2014 |
| Father |
Charles Brossman, b. 21 Jun 1880, Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 09 Mar 1978, Wernersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 97 years) |
| Mother |
Ellen Lenora Focht, b. 19 Oct 1885, Pennsylvania , d. 03 Mar 1938, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 52 years) |
| Family ID |
F35039 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Dora W Althouse, b. 07 Sep 1916, Denver, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , d. 20 Nov 2008, Wernersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 92 years) |
| Married |
03 Aug 1935 |
Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland [2] |
| Children |
| | 1. Calvin C Brossman, b. 10 Nov 1935, Wernersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 19 Jan 1996, Sinking Spring, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 60 years) |
| | 2. Shirley E Brossman, b. 15 Apr 1938, Wernersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania , d. 26 Oct 2016, Wyomissing, Berks County, Pennsylvania (Age 78 years) |
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| Last Modified |
2 Aug 2010 |
| Family ID |
F52202 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S2] Reading Eagle, p. b5, 08 Dec 2005.
Calvin L. Brossman, 90, formerly of West Lawn, died Dec. 7 at 4:35 a.m. in the residence of a daughter, Laura J. (Brossman) Krick, Spring Township, where he had resided three years.
He was the husband of Dora (Althouse) Brossman.
Born in Wernersville, he was a son of the late Charles E. and Ellen D. (Focht) Brossman.
Brossman was employed from 1933 to 1955 as a knitter by Berkshire Knitting Mills, Wyomissing. He was last employed in the maintenance department by the Conrad Weiser School District at its South Heidelberg Elementary School and at the high school from 1955 until his retirement in 1980.
He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Wernersville.
Brossman also is survived by two other daughters, Shirley E. (Brossman) Noecker, Myerstown, and Virginia D. (Brossman) Frey, Birdsboro.
Other survivors include a sister, Grace (Brossman) Luft, Wernersville.
There also are 10 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
He was predeceased by a son, Calvin C. Brossman, in 1996.
Services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Hain's Church Cemetery, Lower Heidelberg Township. Lamm & Witman Funeral Home Inc., Wernersville, is in charge of arrangements.
- [S2] Reading Eagle, 28 Aug 2005.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin L. Brossman, 237 Chapel Hill Road, Spring Township, celebrated their 70 th wedding anniversary with a family gathering.
They were married Aug. 3, 1935, in Elkton, Md.
Brossman, son of the late Charles E. and Ellen (Focht) Brossman, is retired from Conrad Weiser School District.
His wife, Dora W., is a daughter of the late Wayne and Susan Althouse. She is retired from Talbots, Womelsdorf.
They had four children: Shirley, wife of Carl Noecker, Myerstown; Laura, wife of Frank Krick, Spring Township; Virginia, wife of Russell Frey, Exeter Township, and Calvin C., deceased. There are 10 grandchildren and 20 greatgrandchildren.
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