Rev. Karl S. Fetterman

YORK Rev. Karl S. Fetterman, 79, died Monday, November 24, 2008, at Manor Care South. He was the husband of Barbara P. (Frey) Fetterman and the late Phyllis E. (Shaffer) Fetterman. A celebration of his life service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Immanuel United Methodist Church, 1 New St., Glen Rock, with the Rev. Kathy Harvey Nelson, the Rev, Jacqueline Starz, the Rev. Dr. Ray Fravel and the Rev. Mark Webb, officiating. A viewing will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Geiple Funeral Home, Inc. 53 Main St., Glen Rock. Burial will be at the convenience of the family. Rev. Fetterman was born in Berwick, December 26, 1928, and was a son of the late Alfred Delroy and Nellie K. (Kurtz) Fetterman. He graduated in 1946 from the Berwick High School and was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. and Japan from 1946 to 1948. He graduated from the Eastern Baptist College in 1952 and from the Eastern Baptist Seminary with a divinity degree in 1955. His pastoral career began when he was ordained in the First Baptist Church in Berwick, he served the First Baptist Church in Jamestown, R.I. from 1955 to 1957. In 1957 he became a pastor in the E.U.B. Church which later became the United Methodist Church. He served churches in Warrensville, Centre Hall, Spring Mills, Glen Rock, Williamsport, and Wormleysburg before retiring in 1991. Locally he served as pastor of the Immanuel United Methodist Church charge in Glen Rock from 1965 until 1977. After his retirement from the ministry, he moved back to the York area and attended Immanuel United Methodist Church. In his retirement years, he was employed as a tour guide at the York HarleyDavidson plant from 1991 until 2002. In addition to his wife, he also leaves a daughter, Shelley Baker, of Fort Walton Beach, Fla.; two sons, Rob Fetterman of Lumberton, N.C., and Steven R. Flickinger of Red Lion; 10 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Polly Pansini of Long Island, N.Y. It is the family's request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be made to Alzheimer's Disease Research, 22512 Gateway Center Drive, Clarksburg, MD 20871; or to Immanuel United Methodist Church, 1 New St., Glen Rock, PA 17327.