John Garman HERTZLER

Click On Image To Enlarge Lieutenant Colonel JOHN HERTZLER in his military uniform. Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/21/11 - Image Year: 1960 View Additional Photos and Comments

OBITUARY for JOHN GARMAN HERTZLER

PORT ROYAL JOHN G. HERTZLER, 63, of Port Royal R D 2, died Monday in Andrews Air Force Base Hospital, Camp Spring, Md. He was born Dec. 5, 1912, in Old Port a son of the late Noah and Elizabeth Robinson Hertzler. He married the former Eleanor Beaver, who survives.

Also surviving are children, Mrs. Robert (E. Susan) Freeman, Severna Park, Md.; Mrs. Joseph (Patricia) Diver Colorado Springs, Colo.; John G. Hertzler, Jr. Silver Spring Md.; sisters and brothers, Mrs. Ralph (Charlotte) Ungemach, Cupertino, Calif.; Mrs. Daniel (Katheryn) Petrosillo Fresno, Calif.; Robert Hertzler, Carmichael Calif., and five grandchildren.

Hertzler retired from the U. S. Air Force in 1962 as a lieutenant colonel. He was a member of Port Royal Presbyterian Church, Moila Shrine Temple at St. Joseph, Mo., Juniata County Historical Society, and Retired Officers Association. He was a trustee of the Old Church Hill Cemetery Association.

Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Rex Funeral Home Port Royal. The Rev. Eugene W. Stambaugh will officiate. Burial will be in Old Church Hill Cemetery. There will be no viewing. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Arthritis Foundation.

(Lewistown Sentinel - November 30, 1974)

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	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/22/11 - Image Year: 1940 John Hertzler in Officers Candidate School (Photo from the Steve Freeman Collection.)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 1/13/13 - Image Year: 1940 John Hertzler in Officers Candidate School (Photo submitted by Wayne Taylor)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 12/31/20 - Image Year: 1942 BILL AND JANE STIMMEL ROBINSON off on their honeymoon. Bill and Jane in front, Dorothy Stimmel on far right, Ben Groninger next to her, John and Eleanor (Beaver) Hertzler in the middle, Marian Groninger holding Bill to the left of John, in the back. April 1942. (Photo submitted by Randy Groninger)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/22/11 - Image Year: 1948 Captain John Hertzler at Okinawa in 1948 (Photo from the Steve Freeman Collection)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/22/11 - Image Year: 1955 John Hertzler with his mother Elizabeth Robinson Hertzler in Fresno, California (Photo from the collection of Steve Freeman)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/26/11 - Image Year: 1927 Lee Smith (l) and John Hertzler (r) outside the Lutheran Church on 4th Street in Port Royal.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/23/11 - Image Year: 1965 John Hertzler (l) and Wendell "Ace" Henderson (r) aboard John's boat. (Photo from the collection of Steve Freeman.)