SECTION B — PAGE 6 Franklin Searfoss, 88 Released By Death Franklin A. Searfoss, 88, was re- leased Tuesday morning from pain- ful illness, dying at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Baer Sr. at Hun. lock Creek, where he had lived for over eleven years, moving there from Harveys Lake. Burial will be in Kocher Cemetery Friday following services conducted by Rev. Fred Moore and Rev. Thomas Bonham from Nulton Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Friends may call this eve- ning 7 to 9. Grandsons will act as pallbearers. He will lie beside his wife . Elizabeth DeHaven Searfoss, who died twenty years ago. Born at Blakeslee, son of the late Jacob and Elemenia Altemose Sear- foss, he moved ‘to Harveys Lake when eighteen years old, working for a time in the Albert Lewis sawmill, then for fifty years at the Harveys Lake Supply Store at Alderson. The family retained membership in. the Lutheran Church at Blakeslee though the children attended Alder- son Methodist Church. Intensely home-loving, Mr. Sear- foss made a beauty spot of his gar- den, and in later years, of his daugh- ter’'s garden at Hunlock Creek. He was the last of i1ine ‘children. A brother Francis, Fern Ridge, died last year. EA t Surviving ‘are four daughters: Mrs. Harvey Kitchen, Idetown; Mrs. Sarah Panzia Philadelphia; Mrs. La- | vina Barry, Sayre; and Mrs. Baer, | Hunlocks Creek; -three sons: Arthur; ~ CD «GIT CRD CN. wi CE TE Cr ~ <>