Leona Irene Beecher ^{1 2 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: L687-ND5.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1940 in Newville, Cumberland, PA. ⁷ The 1940 census recorded two Beecher families as close neighbors on Rural Delivery route 1 in Newville:

John Beecher, widowed, 80, was living with his daughter, Ella Beecher, 46; son Paul, bulldozer operator, 30; daughter Winifred, 10; and son Glenn, 9. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

Samuel Beecher, 34, was living with wife Elizabeth D., 34; Leona, 13; Gerald, 12; Margaret, 9; Richard, 7; Mary, 4; Joan, 1. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. No one had an occupation listed.

2. Census in 1950 in Greene Twp., Franklin, PA. ⁸ The 1950 census recorded Samuel J. Miller, 79, living with wife Mary C., 80; daughters Lillie Miller, 51, and Mary Miller, school teacher in Mary Sharp School for Dumb, 48; son Samuel Miller Jr., 37; and grandchildren Leona Beecher, 23; Gerald Beecher, store keeping in little store, 22, invalid; and Margaret Beecher, seamstress for men's suit manufacturer, 19. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

3. Residence: RR1, Chambersburg, PA on 8 Mar 1984 in Chambersburg, Franklin, PA. ⁶

4. Residence: on 27 Jul 1992 in Ickesburg, Perry, PA. ⁵

5. Obituary: Public Opinion newspaper on 20 Jul 2007 in Chambersburg, Franklin, PA. Leona Irene Beecher, 81, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, died Thursday, July 19, 2007 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born May 23, 1926 in Chambersburg, Franklin County; she was a daughter of the late Samuel A. and Elizabeth J. Miller Beecher.

Leona was a member of Centerville Lutheran Church.

She is survived by a brother, Richard W. Beecher, Carlisle, five sisters, Margaret I. Widney and Nancy C. Sommerville both of Chambersburg, Mary B. Frengel, Walnut Bottom, Joan E. Ashburn, Carlisle and Rebecca L. Gallucci, Cape Neddick, Maine.

Preceded in death by a brother, Gerald T. Beecher

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, July 24, 2007 in the Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home Inc., Shippensburg at 11 A.M. Officiating will be The Rev. Kathryn Z. Johnston. Burial will be in the Centerville Memorial Gardens, Penn Township, Cumberland County.