Margaret Elizabeth (FRANKHOUSE) LYTER

Click On Image To Enlarge Margaret (Frankhouse) Lyter in photo taken at the Port Royal Lutheran Church in 1992. Contributed by rkohler3 on 8/2/11 - Image Year: 1992 View Additional Photos and Comments

OBITUARY for MARGARET ELIZABETH FRANKHOUSE BEAVER LYTER

PORT ROYAL: Margaret F. Lyter, 105, a resident of Brookline Manor Retirement Village, Mifflintown RR1, formerly of Port Royal, died at 2:59 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1999, at Brookline Manor.

Born Oct. 15, 1893, in Port Royal, she was the daughter of the late Charles D. and Jennie (Meloy) Frankhouse. Her first husband, Samuel S. Beaver, died in 1932 and her second husband, George C. Lyter, died Jan. 2, 1955.

Surviving are: children, Richard A. Beaver, Liverpool, and Eleanor B Hertzler, Port Royal; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

She was the last of her immediate family and was preceded in death by a son, Charles T. Beaver in 1945; a stepson, William L. Lyter; three brothers; and one sister.

She was a 1910 graduate of the Port Royal High School and attended Susquehanna College, Selinsgrove.

She was a private duty nurse and had worked in the Masonic Home's Hospital, Elizabethtown.

She was a member of the Port Royal Lutheran Church and was a charter member of the Port Royal Book Club. She was a former member of the Eastern Star, Mifflintown.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Rex Funeral Home, Port Royal, with the Rev. Marton J. Roberson officiating. Interment will be in New Church Hill Cemetery, Port Royal. Friends may call from 10 a.m. until the time of the services Saturday at the funeral home.

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	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/23/11 - Image Year: 1993 Margaret in Brookline Manor Retirement Village, Mifflintown RR1, about 1997. Possibly on her 100th Birthday. (Photo from the cpllection of Steve Freeman)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/22/11 - Image Year: 1901 FRANKHOUSE SIBLINGS: (l-r) Martha, Margaret, Melvin, Joe (Abt. 1901) (Photo from the collection of Steve Freeman)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 10/11/11 - Image Year: 1910 1910 PRHS GRADUATING CLASS: (Left to Right): Hugh Groninger, Stanley Kerchner, Clinton Rodgers, Raymond Patterson, Margaret Frankhouse Beaver Lyter and Ralph Patterson.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/23/11 - Image Year: 1957 MARGARET, ELEANOR & GRANDCHILDREN: (l-r) Susan Hertzler Freeman, Margaret Lyter, John Hertzler, Jr., Eleanor Hertzler in the Lyter driveway, Town Lane, Port Royal (1957) (Phptp from the Steve Freeman Collection)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/22/11 - Image Year: 1980 FRANKHOUSE SIBLINGS: Margaret Lyter (l), Fred Frankhouse, Martha Kauffman (r)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/22/11 - Image Year: 1980 Sarah Ford and Margaret Lyter. (Photo from the Steve Freeman Collection.)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/22/11 - Image Year: 1986 FRANKHOUSE SIBLINGS: (l-r) Margaret, Martha, Joe, Fred (Dec. 1986) (Photo from the collection of Steve Freeman)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 7/23/11 - Image Year: 1990 Martha Frankhouse Kauffman, Eleanor Beaver Hertzler and Margaret Frankhouse Beaver Lyter (Photo from the Collection of Steve Freeman)
	Contributed by ray on 7/23/11 - Image Year: 1990 VISITING MARGARET: (l-r) Eleanor Hertzler, Margaret Lyter, Patricia Hertzler, Martha Kauffman, Susan Hertzler (Photo from the Steve Freeman Collection)