Boas, Arthur C. - 12/2/2000

Arthur C. Boas, 78, formerly of Boas Road, Cumru Township, died Saturday morning at 4:45 in the Denver Nursing Home in Lancaster County, where he had resided since April 13, 1999. His wife, Violet K. (Eyrich) Boas, died Feb. 20, 1998. Born in Cumru Township, he was a son of the late Grover C., and Elizabeth (Long) Boas. Boas had been employed for 38 years by the Reading Hardware Co., retiring in 1982. He was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II. Surviving are two sisters, Mariam (Boas) Breneman, Mohnton R.D. 5, and Myrtle (Boas) Yerger, Fleetwood R.D. 2. Whelan, Fleischmann & Schwartz Funeral Homes Inc., is in charge of arrangements.1

• 1. Reading Eagle, 12/3/2000