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Robert Jefferies Obituary
He was born in Hershey on Aug. 16, 1921, the son of the late William and Millie Fornwalt Jefferies.
He was a graduate of the Philadelphia Wireless Technical Institute, and attended Franklin Marshall College and Dickinson College. He was an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II.
Mr. Jefferies was the owner of the former Beachfront Hotel in Wormleysburg, the Mayflower Moving Van Co. and Jefferies Distributors. He was also a former substitute teacher at Cumberland-Perry Vo-Tech School.
"Jeff" was a 50-year member of the West Shore F&AM Lodge No. 681 in Camp Hill; the Zembo Shrine and a past president of the Cumberland County Shrine Club.
He belonged to Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Camp Hill. He was a Brass Master, an avid bridge player and worldwide traveler. He was a former member and past president of the West Shore Rotary Club, and was a developer of the area's first color television. Its tube was donated to the Dickinson Library. He was active in local Republican party politics, was a member of the Governor's Club, and a supporter of the renovation of the 17th Street Bridge in Camp Hill.
Surviving are his wife, the former Eugenie Krall, and several nieces and nephews.
Memorial services will be today at 1:30 p.m. in Musselman Funeral Home, 324 Hummel Ave., Lemoyne, with the Rev. J. Stewart Hardy officiating. Burial will be in Trinity's Columbarium. Visitation will be from 12:30-1:30 p.m. today in the funeral home, with Masonic services at 1 p.m.
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